Yes. He was diagnosed with ALS. It's an incurable disease of the nervous system.
It doesnt affect us in any way he just descovered it so we would learn more and know about it.
Nobody knows when he, or anyone else, will die. Some information regarding his condition was posted on April 20, 2009, on his official web site: Professor Hawking is comfortable, but will be spending the night in hospital. The Cambridge University Press Office have a statement to this effect, and do not expect to have any further updates until mid-morning tomorrow.
Some cosmological theories suggest the universe may be either 10 or 11 dimensional.As far as Stephen Hawking goes ... there is no limit to the number of dimensions that can be considered on a theoretical basis, and in fact certain problems in physics are best treated in "Hilbert space", which is an abstract vector space with an infinite number of dimensions. How many dimensions Dr. Hawking uses for any given calculation would therefore depend on exactly what it is that he's calculating.
He didn't. Although Hawking has done an immense amount of theoretical work on black holes, as well as the topology of our Universe, he has always taken Big Bang Cosmology as his starting point. That's because, by the time he got his PhD in 1966, observational evidence had pretty much ruled out any cosmology but Big Bang. Hawking has simply improved our mathematical understanding of BBC.
As there is no empirical evidence for the existence of any sort of deity, and as there is absolutely no need to invoke god(s) to explain the universe, Hawking does not believe in any deity.
Yes, two.
Stephen Hawking
yes
He is quite witty and stubborn.
He has three children according to a Discovery program TV
No, he has never looked for any either. He only studies them purely theoretically.
Yes, boating. He was coxswain of his College eight.
I'm sure he's had plenty like all of us, but especially notable is his struggle with ALS.
There is not enough statistical data to answer this question properly and without the adequate amount of information (via poll or survey data), any answer would simply be opinion based and not a substantial answer.
He has ALS, there is currently no cure or treatment for his degenerative disease.. too bad, a brillant mind limited only by his body but not his mind
It doesnt affect us in any way he just descovered it so we would learn more and know about it.
Nobody knows when he, or anyone else, will die. Some information regarding his condition was posted on April 20, 2009, on his official web site: Professor Hawking is comfortable, but will be spending the night in hospital. The Cambridge University Press Office have a statement to this effect, and do not expect to have any further updates until mid-morning tomorrow.