I am eager for Hawking's story.

There is a movie called The Story of Hawking, you can look for it. In fact, it introduces Hawking's life.

There is an article called Hawking in a Wheelchair. Here is it.

After sitting in a wheelchair for 40 years, only three fingers can move, and speaking and answering questions can only be realized by a speech synthesizer. However, his popular science book A Brief History of Time has many readers all over the world.

He is Stephen Hawking, the "king of the universe".

Fate is cruel to Hawking. 1963, when Hawking was 2 1 year-old, he unfortunately suffered from Luger's disease, which would lead to muscle atrophy, and soon he was completely paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for a long time. 1985, Hawking underwent tracheal surgery for pneumonia and completely lost his speech function. Forty years later, the disease has completely deformed his body: his head can only be tilted to the right, his shoulders are also left low and right high, his hands are tightly sandwiched in the middle, holding a mimeograph keyboard the size of a palm, and his feet are twisted inward. The mouth is crooked into an S-shape. As long as you smile, you will immediately show a "grin." Now, this has become his iconic image. He can't write, and he has to rely on a book turning machine to read. When reading literary works, he must spread out every page on a big desk, and then read page by page in a wheelchair like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves.

Doctors have diagnosed Hawking as terminally ill and can only live for two years, but he survived tenaciously, and it is in this unimaginable hardship that he became a world-recognized scientific giant. Although his body never left the wheelchair, his thoughts flew out of the earth, out of the solar system, out of the Milky Way, into the depths of the universe tens of billions of light years away, and into the mysterious black hole. He imagines, demonstrates and calculates in his mind. He thought about when the universe began and whether time had an end. He discovered the evaporation of black holes, deduced the big bang of black holes ... and built a very beautiful and scientific model of the universe. He was elected as the youngest member of the Royal Society, and became a Lucas Professor of Mathematics, only a great scientist like Newton could join.

He would rather think quietly about the fate of the universe alone than be worshipped all day. He usually hangs a sign in front of the office, which reads:

"Please keep quiet, the master is sleeping."

That may not be true. Hawking just doesn't want to be disturbed by outsiders. At this time, he must be sitting in this comfortable hut with a high ceiling and working quietly in front of the computer for several hours. Among the two or three pots of plants around, there are photos of his three children. Every afternoon at 4 o'clock, he will talk with graduate students with the help of nurses. They have afternoon tea and exchange views on the universe. If a student questions his theory, he will grin at once.

Hawking's charm lies not only in his legendary physical genius, but also in his convincing life force. His constant pursuit of scientific spirit and brave and tenacious personality strength deeply touched the public.

Once, when the academic report was over, a young female reporter was the first to jump on the platform. Facing this great scientist who had been living in a wheelchair for more than 30 years at that time, she was deeply admired and asked without pity, "Mr. Hawking, your illness has fixed you in a wheelchair forever. Don't you think fate has cost you too much? "

This question was obviously abrupt and sharp, and the lecture hall was suddenly silent.

Hawking's face is still full of quiet smile. He tapped the keyboard with his fingers still moving, so with the standard London cavity of the synthesizer, the huge projection screen slowly and conspicuously showed the following paragraphs:

My fingers are still moving,

My brain can still think;

I have an ideal that I have pursued all my life.

I love and love my relatives and friends;

By the way, I still have a grateful heart. ...

When the heart trembles, the applause thunders. People flocked to the stage and gathered around this extraordinary scientist to pay sincere respect to him.

Let me tell you a few related stories.

The first one: learning to explore.

Hawking, a scientist, seems to have a weak learning ability when he was a child. He learned to read very late. After school, he never got into the top 65,438+00 in his class. Moreover, because his homework is always "untidy", his teachers think he is "hopeless" and his classmates regard him as the object of ridicule. When Hawking 12 years old, two boys in the class took a bag of candy and bet that he would never succeed. The classmates ironically nicknamed him "Einstein". Who knows, after more than 20 years, the little boy who was not outstanding in those days really became a master of physics. What is the reason?

As it turns out, with the growth of age, Hawking became interested in how everything works. He often takes things apart to get to the bottom of them, but when he reassembles them, there is nothing he can do. However, his parents didn't punish him for it, and his father even served as a "coach" in mathematics and physics for him. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, Hawking found himself very interested in the study of physics. Although middle school physics is too easy and simple, it is particularly boring, but he thinks it is the most basic science, which is expected to solve the problem of where people come from and why they are here. Since then, Hawking has started a real scientific exploration.

Second: Love life.

Who is Hawking? He is a brain, a myth, the most outstanding theoretical physicist of our time, a giant in the name of science ... perhaps, he is just a warrior in a wheelchair who challenges his fate.

Once, Hawking returned to his apartment in Berlin in a wheelchair. I was knocked down by a car while crossing the road, my left arm was broken, my head was cut, and I had 13 stitches. About 48 hours later, he returned to the office and began to work.

Despite the growing physical disability, Hawking still tries to live like an ordinary person and accomplish what he can. He's even lively-it sounds a bit funny. After he was completely unable to move, he still insisted on driving a wheelchair with his only movable finger on the way to the office. When meeting Prince Charles, he turned his wheelchair to show off and ran over Prince Charles' toes. Of course, Hawking also tasted the consequences of "freedom" action. The master of quantum gravity jumped into the wheelchair many times under the weak gravity of the earth. Fortunately, every time he stubbornly "stood up".

1985, Hawking underwent tracheal surgery, and since then he has completely lost the ability to speak. It is under such circumstances that he made great efforts to write the famous A Brief History of Time and explored the origin of the universe.

Third: My lifelong wish is to be an ordinary person.

Stephen Hawking's proof is not so much the existence of BIGBANG and black holes, but rather that he has proved another more important thing with his whole life-he is an ordinary person and has not become an inferior "waste man" because he is trapped in a wheelchair. However, the result of the proof is even more surprising than when he found that "black holes are not all black"-how did he become a superior "superman"?

Therefore, on August 1 1, he was pushed out of the elevator on the second floor of Shangri-La Hotel in Hangzhou. When he was paralyzed in a wheelchair, Hawking seemed reluctant in front of countless flashes that lit up instantly. Just like being chased by a superstar media at Pudong International Airport, the greatest physicist since Einstein finally chose to close his eyes and let the curtain falling slowly around him shut out the fanatical "A Brief History of Time". He prefers to think quietly about the fate of the universe alone.

Maybe this is Hawking's world. Hawking once said that he clearly remembered coming home from London late one day when he was a child. "At that time, people would turn off the street lights in the middle of the night to save money. I am walking on the road. I have never seen the night sky that night, and the whole galaxy seems to pass overhead. " In this regard, his mother said, "Just look at the way the child looks up at the starry sky, and you will know how curious he is." Hawking even said, "Even if I am on an uninhabited desert island, I would rather have no lights, because then I can see the stars better."

It was not until the age of 22 that Hawking was diagnosed with Luger's disease, accompanied by motor atrophy, and he could only live for a few years at most. This obsession with the starry sky has gradually become a belief-he wants to live like a normal person. Even if he can't move all over, in order to marry the girl he loves, he must have a job and finish his doctorate in Cambridge first, so there is the big bang theory that the universe originated from a singularity in space. Even if he lost his speech function, he had to make a sum of money to pay for his daughter's tuition, so he had A Brief History of Time, which sold as well as the Bible and Shakespeare. Can people imagine that Hawking's widely acclaimed scientific achievements only come from his original intention to prove that he can be like ordinary people?

However, every time Hawking tries to prove that he is an ordinary person, the result is far higher than his expectation. He found that since massive stars will collapse into singularity after "oil runs out and lights run out", can this process be reversed, and the universe was born from the singularity big bang? Since there is universal gravitation between celestial bodies, is there a black hole whose gravity is so great that even light can be sucked in? Hawking's theory about singularities and black holes "accidentally" touched the nerve of theoretical physics.

Einstein's general theory of relativity is applicable to celestial bodies, and quantum mechanics is applicable to microscopic particles, but they cannot be unified. Hawking's singularity theory is only unified to "infinitely small matter explodes into celestial bodies". He predicted that by the end of the last century, this "great unification" theory would eventually be discovered-perhaps with a few simple equations, human understanding of the universe would reach its limit and theoretical physics would end.

However, after more than 20 years, his prediction has not come true. When the reporter asked Hawking this question, his assistant said for him, "I think Hawking agrees that he is wrong." Hawking, who can't talk this time, no longer winked at the reporter, but grinned directly to express his agreement. It took him a long time to answer through onomatopoeia, "Science is unpredictable. If I had known, I would have succeeded "-finally, he succeeded in proving to the world that he was an ordinary person with his predicted failure.

"Keep quiet, the boss is sleeping."

No one who sees Hawking will have the heart to disturb this genius. Although psychologically prepared, the reporter was deeply touched at the moment he saw him. The 40-year-old Luger's disease has completely deformed his body: his head can only be tilted to the right, his shoulders are also left low and right high, his hands are tightly sandwiched in the middle, holding a palm-sized mimetic keyboard, and his feet are twisted inward. 10 years ago, the mouth that was still symmetrical in the photo was crooked into an S-shape. As long as you smile, you will immediately become a "grin"-now, this has become his symbol.

Under the "indiscriminate bombing" of dozens of photographic "gun barrels" at the scene, that magical mimeograph looks completely different from ordinary LCD computers. The reporter sneaked behind Hawking and found that onomatopoeia words were not arranged in alphabetical order, but combined in logical order. For example, conjunctions indicating choice or juxtaposition become one group, and the subject person becomes another group. Hawking used it to choose words, and finally pressed the pronunciation key to let the computer-generated voice speak for him.

Even if he knew the reporter's question in advance, Hawking's answer was surprisingly slow. The reporter could hardly see his fingers pressing the keyboard, as if they would never move. There was only silence at the scene after the question was asked, and countless eyes fell on Hawking, until a few slightly weird English words popped up in my ear-the British said it had an American accent, while the Americans thought it had a Nordic accent or an Irish accent. His answer is extremely short, and a simple sentence with only subject, predicate and object often has to wait for more than ten minutes. In less than an hour, Hawking looked tired, and the reporter even saw him start to press the keyboard bored to keep the screen flashing.

Hawking has been the Lucas Professor of Cambridge University since 1980. He saw everything in the universe from his wheelchair. However, perhaps it is much simpler and more comfortable for him to think quietly in his office in Cambridge than to be worshipped all day. Hawking goes to the office in a wheelchair every day and walks through a long corridor, where all the portraits of Professor Lucas, including Newton, are neatly hung. Hawking's office is at the end of a row of French windows. There is usually a raft hanging at the door of the office, which reads: "Please keep quiet, the boss is sleeping."

That's probably not true-Hawking just doesn't want to be disturbed by outsiders. At this time, he must be sitting in this comfortable small room with a high ceiling, working quietly in front of the computer for several hours, galloping in his own universe. Two or three pots of plants around are photos of three children. Every afternoon at 4 o'clock, he will talk with graduate students with the help of nurses. They have afternoon tea and exchange views on the universe. A nurse held Hawking's cheek and straightened his crooked head so that the tea wouldn't leak out. Sometimes his glasses will slide down his nose, but if a student asks about his theory, he will grin at once.

At least, the excuse that "the boss is sleeping" makes Hawking feel most free. Just as he named his book after Shakespeare's words-"Even if I am locked in a shell, I still think I am the king of infinite space", Hawking told reporters, "I find the real universe even more attractive than Star Wars. If you want to go to space, you must study physics first. "

Willing to go to a desert island with a requiem.

A reporter asked him what his greatest happiness was besides scientific research. Hawking's answer seems much faster. "I love life. Music and family have given me a lot of happiness. " Outside the universe, music is where he finds his home. So far, the most successful interview about Hawking is the BBC's "Desert Island Record" program at Christmas 1992. This program requires respondents to assume that they are alone on a desert island and can only choose eight records to carry with them. Only this time, Hawking rarely answered questions in simple sentences for the first time-when it comes to music, his "words" box suddenly opened. Hawking likes Wagner's music very much. He said, "I began to like Wagner from 1963, when I was diagnosed with Luger's disease. The dark tone and apocalyptic mood of Wagner's music coincided with my mood at that time. " He even took pains to repeat the plot of Wagner's The Lord of the Rings-you know, even normal people spend a lot of time, not to mention choosing words one by one.

However, if he could only choose one record, he said he would still choose Mozart's Requiem. "On my 15 birthday, I got a set of Mozart's CD, which lasted for 200 hours. I still listen to it often. My favorite is Mozart's requiem. If I can only take one record to a desert island, I will take it to listen to DISCMAN's battery until it runs out. "