Stephen Hawking answers to the questions everyone via Reddit

Sheldon Cooper all countries can rejoice - soon each of us will be able to ask questions directly to the scientist and popularizer of science Stephen Hawking. Those who are lucky will be able to even get a response. event will be held at the facilities of Reddit popular resource in разделе r / science from 27 July to 4 August.

Reddit periodically invites to his well-known personalities, which are usually for an hour on-line to answer questions of visitors. However, in view of the obvious constraints associated with the state of Professor Hawking, it will be possible to ask questions about a week. It then selects the most interesting questions, and over the next week will give the answers.

The main topic for discussion was chosen artificial intelligence - namely, those necessary restrictions that must be imposed on advance its capabilities. Many well-known personalities - and except for the professor is millionaire Elon Musk , fiction writer Vernor Vinge and other , - have already expressed their concerns about the fact that artificial intelligence, once created, can not only harm humanity, and (at worst) even erase it from the face of the planet.

Fortunately, the subject matters will not be severely limited, so it is willing and able to ask questions about the universe and black holes (one of the specialties of Professor Hawking), and everything that comes to mind. The main thing that he was interested in answering.

Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in the UK, is engaged in theoretical physics, made a huge contribution to the theory of black holes, put forward the theory of energy loss by black holes, called Hawking radiation. In the 20s he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which eventually led to the paralysis. At the very beginning of the disease, doctors believed that he left to live two and a half years. However, due to the huge force of will, he lived for 73 years and is still actively engaged in scientific and research activities.

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