Lol all the time travelers go to when hawking was on Epstien Island
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What the fuck is he in the files for? What did he allegedly do? He’s bound to the chair!
It's a little ableist to suggest that his being wheelchair-bound would necessarily prevent him from being a pedophile.
little ablist
Oh FFS, cut it out already with the "ablist!!" screeching
The guy literally can only move his eyes, he literally can barely do anything without a support staff. He can breathe on his own, he can think on his own, that's about it
He cannot be a pedophile is not being ablisi, it's being realistic.
He was there for a scientific conference that was organized there.
wheelchair-bound
Dude was fully paralyzed. Come one. Are you really that desperate to attack someone? Guy is asking a valid question.
Why are you suggesting that paralyzed people are somehow incapable?
Grow the fuck up.
Stephen Hawking reportedly loved strippers. His being paralyzed doesn't/didn't preclude sexual interests, nor untoward sexual pursuits, particularly given his status and presence in the fucking Epstein files.
Doesn't justify you walking around calling people ableist for not knowing that bub. Grow the fuck up.
That's generally how people find out. Until then, it is both at the same time. Schroedinger's douchebag and all.
Then how did he have an affair?
Is power itself not enough to coerce someone, you're saying it has to be physical coercion? That would undo a lot of what we know about sexual assault.
I'm certainly not saying he did it, but "he's paralyzed" is not a good enough defense.
Its not a defense its a line of inquiry. Why do you think people asking what he's accused of are defending him? That doesn't make sense.
Are you implying he fucked?
Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.
He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone "I can connect you with Stephen Hawking" is currency.
The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing -- just a way to appeal to certain people.
I think it's more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.
I know one person IRL who was a frequenter of Little St John Island, aka Epstein Island. Wealthy man who made that trip regularly. He was not particularly attractive but he was wealthy. This is the place old wealthy men would go to get sexual satisfaction when nobody else will give it to them.
It's not like Hawking and Epstein traded a few emails talking about science, or had a one off meeting. It appears they had a fair amount of exchanges over a long period of time.
Epstein was a vile human in the worst kind of way and I see no evidence that Hawking was blind to this fact. Half the people on this app wouldn't willingly associate with someone of a different political party than them, but to defend a man who willingly spent time with a convicted sex trafficker? The fact that Hawking was paralyzed doesn't absolve him from willingly enabling (and potentially partaking in) child abuse and sex trafficking.
People have been getting taller over time. Hawking didn't book a big enough venue.
What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel? I'd much rather go look at dinosaurs, or visit the construction of the pyramids, or go listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.
Even if my goal was to meet a single scientist, I think I'd personally pick any other. Pliny the Elder, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein...
Not to be rude to Mr. Hawking (well, maybe he deserves it, I don't know what got him in to the Epstein files...), but a thorougly average party is simply not likely to attract very many time travellers.
What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel?
Not only that, apparently the machine he used to speak was rather difficult to use quickly, and drafting responses could take hours or days depending on how much needed said. Pretty much all of his appearances after he was unable to use his voice were heavily scripted ahead of time.
So unless you're visiting Steven Hawking when he still could talk, it'd be pretty boring as you couldn't have a proper back-and-forth conversation
It's because if it were actually possible and they did it, then all of space and time would have collapsed into something akin to a giant black hole, obliterating everything, bringing a violent and inescapable end to it all.
Just more reason to build a time machine, I guess.
the reason we don't have time travelers is that the past is no more concrete than the future. [Current science disagrees with the idea that] just like there are infinite potential futures, there are an infinity of potential pasts that could have evolved into the present [instead insisting that the entire past is fully embedded in the present]. [It's not supported by any current theories that] the probability of reaching a particular past is essentially zero.
Time is a physical entity that can be warped, but nobody is creating snaphsots of reality to travel back to and future is entirely a human concept.
Or, analogy to a river (although flawed): you can't create a loop and expect it to still flow. But circumstances can make it flow slower or faster.
Nobody is creating snapshots, the past is lost, but in a sense it is still entirely, umm, present (forgive the pun). It is apparently not true that there is more than one past that could have evolved into the present. This has bothered me a lot and I don't entirely understand in this moment why that is, but I've looked into it several times and every time eventually assured myself that it was so. Though I haven't accounted for the idea that spaces that were once causally bound to each other can possibly become causally unbound... oh well, down the rabbit hole again.
I vehemently disagree with many worlds theory. I think its a total mindfuck. However I do think that the future influences the present and the past.
I’m agnostic
Its for the best
Honestly, even if time travel were theoretically possible to be invented, there's also a high chance that we're just going to destroy ourselves before we get to that point anyway.
Is it because our solar system is hurdling through space at over 1.5 million miles per hour, so anyone who time travels will find themselves alone in an empty void?