If you spent nearly 60 years of your life in a wheelchair, with only your fingers moving and even basic speaking ability lost, how would you spend your life?
In this regard, Stephen Hawking, who has suffered from the "frostbite" disease for 50 years, gave a most perfect answer.
He not only proved the singularity theorem of general relativity and the black hole area theorem, but also proposed the theory of black hole evaporation and the hawking model of the universe without boundaries, taking an important step in unifying the two basic theories of 20th-century physics, the theory of relativity founded by Einstein and the quantum mechanics founded by Planck.
The wheelchair can only trap his body, not his free soul.
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Many people know his legendary life, know his great contribution to the field of physics, and the mere mention of this name automatically puts him in a golden coat.
But in the end, he is also a living life with his own personality, and unlike ordinary people, he is also a highly disabled person who faces embarrassment everywhere in life.
For example, eating needs to be fed, due to muscle atrophy, liquid food will often flow down the corner of the mouth; for example, when going out, you need to carry a bottle with you for the situation of facing excretion.
When a person who has been overwhelmed with flowers and applause outside and has overcome super difficult problems in the physics community, his dilemma is the daily life that ordinary people live within reach.
So, in the face of these embarrassing, even somewhat humiliating things, how did he overcome them? Has he become unusual in personality due to a physical disability? Putting aside his remarkable contributions, is he a difficult, paranoid, and even somewhat cold person in life?
These questions can be found in the book Stephen Hawking: Memories of Friendship and Physics.
Stephen Hawking: Memories of Friendship and Physics, by Lennard Hawking Leonard Mlodinow, a partner of Stephen Hawking, co-published The Big Design and A Brief History of Time (Popular Edition) in collaboration with Hawking.
At the same time, he is also Hawking's lifelong friend, and the book tells the faded side of Stephen Hawking from the author's own perspective, triggering people to think deeper philosophically about love and life.
Here are some excerpts from the book that readers who like Hawking can get a sneak peek:
This time, regardless of physics, open the book and you feel as if you are enjoying wine and food with Hawking, listening to him tell you interesting stories about himself, and his feelings about love, death, and disability, and immersing yourself in thinking about the deeper problems of life.
Despite being imprisoned in a barely functioning body, Stephen Hawking's life light has not dimmed, he is still stubbornly dancing in the unfree skin bag with a free soul, reflecting on himself, maybe life can not be as expected, but as long as you do not give up, you will still achieve your own career, at least much more than we think we can do.
The universe is empty, but your affection and love can always get a distant echo through the emptiness of the universe, which gently tells you -
Love is life.
Love is life
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