There are not so many people who have read 'A Brief History of Time', and fewer people who can read it completely, but that doesn't stop the world from admiring Hawking. His death was left to the people on earth, not just to be remembered.
Why is Hawking so attractive?
For professionals, Hawking's 'gravity' comes from his extraordinary work. He pioneered the theory that the universe's black holes are warm and radioactive. His work has taken an important step forward in the two fundamental theories of physics, the theory of relativity and the quantum mechanics founded by Einstein.
For secular people, Hawking is legendary. The first is that his device is high-end. It is possible to send an unique voice through the eyes, full of wisdom and energy. Reverence is often the result of undetectable curiosity: what does a man who has been confined to a wheelchair for decades know so much?
Hawking's concerns vary from country to country and population, and have always been controversial. For example, he had a euphemism for the death of a man who was dead, in order to express the understanding of atheism. When a cutting edge of the universe to explore in the absence of guaranteed the facts put forward a kind of judgment, is often beyond science and into the domain of philosophy, religion, ethics, in the face of faith conflict and sensitive, bold, Hawking is the highest.
One wonders how such a prodigy might have grown. From his childhood report card, he was no different from the average kids, even worse. Once, my mother asked him, son, are you really weak? The son gave an awkward answer, 'well... the other kids are about the same.' His family condition is not superior, no cars, no big house, live to pinch pennies, working parents most of the time could not take more care of the children. However, who graduated from Oxford University, two parents have a firm principle, children have to read more books. Reading and communication became the norm in this ordinary family life.
At Cambridge, Hawking was not at first conspicuous. It is said that he also liked to bet on strange topics, and almost always lose. To graduate, his body out of the question, confirmed 'frozen', this is a very 'splitting' of the disease, the body gradually lose vigor, but the patient's thought and spirit free. About that time, when Hawking's body began to die, a scientific genius was born.
Like Einstein, Hawking has an extraordinary endowment. What else does Hawking have besides a superbrain? The BBC spoke with Hawking's three children, they see their father like this: he is curious to the outside world, has a childlike interest, and he encourages his children to ask questions. Even if it's sound like a silly question, because the question is the beginning of the detection.
He is progressive, never ceases to explore the subject of his interest, and pays great attention to it.
He is also interesting, and the abstruse astrophysics is vividly animated through Hawking's mouth, such as 'A Brief History of Time', which is interesting to read with Hawking's curiosity and inquiring mind.
Hawking is playful. He is travelling around and sit on a hot air balloon to celebrate a birthday, sneak into the bottom of the sea view and admire the scenery deep, star's telescope observation space in the house, he ran to the Florida space lab experience zero gravity flight, boarded the stage of playing together with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. For fun, Hawking would try anything.
Hawking is alive. Gradually frozen as the disease diagnosis, the doctors say he's only two years of life. Hawking did not depression, but a burst of scientific research and the passion of life. People around you look at the way he trembled, thought he would be 'hang' at any time, but no one had thought that he not only lived for more than 50 years, and continues to striking found engraved on the tombstone.
Hawking is also social. Of course, as Hawking is the great scientist in the world, but as he visited numerous BBS and enthusiasm to look in the film and television played role, traveled around the world for public speech, it's not much. He has opened accounts on China's micro-blog website and has talked to young people. This is really a question to ask again: what is Hawking doing, for what?
Another question that would be intentional, but unintentional, is how Hawking survived for decades.
Interestingly, the report on Hawking has intentionally omitted this part of the story. But it is said that Hawking requirement for quality of life was not low, people took care of him he invested a lot of energy, out of the limelight, return to eat and drink pull scatter day and night, physical pain and suffering who also hide not the past. Because of this, his children in the obituary special reference to the 76-year-old's resilience and courage.
Emotional life is part of Hawking's legend. Jane Wilde was undoubtedly the most important woman in his life, and after learning about Hawking's illness, she married Hawking and raised three children. It was only the couple who knew about the years that followed. After the two divorced, each of them made up a family, and then Hawking divorced, Jane came back to Hawking, supporting him as a friend.
To really live a normal life, look up at the starry sky, which is one of Hawking's words to the world. In short, people need substance and spirit. This seems easy, in fact is not, such as his last that video for ordinary Chinese people, running under fierce praise, whether we can quiet down, give 25 seconds to 1 minute, point to open, and carefully taste the old man to the depths of the universe to human wisdom says:
We are explorers and thinkers. The premise of our exploration is that we need imagination.
We need to think about how we will live in the future, what we can do to cope with today's problems, and better think about the future for mankind.
I don't think we need to worry.