My Brief History
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茂盛2021-12-30一天上午，当我在脱开呼吸器时昏迷过去。值班护士以为我没事，倘若没有另一位护理传唤伊莱恩，伊莱恩使我苏醒过来的话，我大概早已死去。伊莱恩为这一切危机耗费了大量的情感。我们在2007年离婚。
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茂盛2021-12-301979年我旅行到科西加给暑期学校讲课之后，我们第三个孩子蒂莫西出世。之后简的情绪变得更低落了。她担心我很快会死去，希望找到某个人在我死后养活她和孩子并和她结婚。她找到乔纳森·琼斯，一位地方教会的音乐家兼风琴演奏师，并在我们的公寓给了他一个房间。我本应反对这件事，但是我也以为自己会早早死去，并且觉得需要有人在我死后养活孩子们。
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茂盛2021-12-29某人一度说过，科学家和妓女都为自己享受的工作得到报酬。
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茂盛2021-12-29我患病的一个后果就是把这一切都改变了。当你要面临夭折时，你就意识到生命是值得过的，因为有很多事情等你去做。
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茂盛2021-12-29那个时期在牛津占主导的看法是非常不用功。你要么是不费吹灰之力而非常卓越，要么接受自己能力有限而得到第四等。因为用功而得到较好等级被视为一个“灰人”的标志，在牛津词汇中这是最坏的诨名。
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茂盛2021-12-29但是我父亲认为除了做教师，学数学的人找不到任何工作，所以极力反对。他实在希望我从事医学，但我对生物学提不起兴趣；对我而言，生物学似乎太描述性了，而且不够基本。它在学校中的地位相当低。最聪明的孩子学数学和物理，不太聪明的学生物学。
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咯咯精2014-11-21I used to have a bumper sticker that read BLACK HOLES ARE OUT OF SIGHT on the door of my office in DAMTP. This so irritated the head of the department that he engineered my election to the Lucasian Professorship, moved me to a better office on the strength of it, and personally tore the offending notice off the door of the old office.
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咯咯精2014-11-21In the next five years, Roger Penrose, Bob Geroch, and I developed the theory of causal structure in general relativity. It was a wonderful feeling, having a whole field virtually to ourselves. How unlike particle physics, where people were falling over themselves to latch on to the latest idea. They still are.
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咯咯精2014-11-21There was a conference on Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics and the arrow of time at Cornell University in 1963. Feynman was so disgusted by the nonsense put forth about the arrow of time that he refused to let his name appear in the proceedings. He was referred to only as Mr. X, but everyone knew who that was.
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咯咯精2014-11-20When I began research, the two areas that seemed most exciting were cosmology and elementary particle physics. The latter was an active, rapidly changing field that attracted most of the best minds, while cosmology and general relativity were stuck where they had been in the 1930s. Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, has given an amusing account of attending a conference on general relativity and gravitation in Warsaw in 1962. In a letter to his wife, he said, “I am not getting anything out of the meeting. I am learning nothing. Because there are no experiments, this field is not an active one, so few of the best men are doing work in it. The result is that there are hosts of dopes here (126) and it is not good for my blood pre...
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咯咯精2014-11-20But my father was very much against it, because he thought there wouldn’t be any jobs for mathematicians except as teachers. He would really have liked me to do medicine, but I showed no interest in biology, which seemed to me to be too descriptive and not sufficiently fundamental. It also had a rather low status at school. The brightest boys did mathematics and physics; the less bright did biology.
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咯咯精2014-11-20“At that time, during and just after the war, Highgate was an area in which a number of scientific and academic people lived. (In another country they would have been called intellectuals, but the English have never admitted to having any intellectuals.)”
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茂盛2021-12-29如果说爱因斯坦的广义相对论提出引力由时空的弯曲来体现，那么霍金的黑洞蒸发理论发现了引力或时空的热性。......狭义相对论抛弃了多余的以太思想，广义相对论拜托了绝对时空观念，而物理学在霍金黑洞理论后面临的一个重大问题是，时空和熵哪个更基本的本体论问题。
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seven2021-09-16万一我不能做研究，作为后备计划，我已经申请当公务员。因为我对核武器有反感，不想与国防有任何相于。因此我把在公务部门做事（那时是照管公共建筑物）或者在下议院任书记员列为优先选择。在面试时有一件事变得很清楚，那就是我根本不知道书记员是做什么的、尽管如此，我通过了面试，余下的一切就是一次笔试。不幸的是，我全然忘记并错过了笔试。公务员进选委员会给我写了一封很友善的信，说我明年可以再试、他们不会对我有成见。没有成为一名公务员是我的率运。如果那样的话，我就无法应付我后来的残疾所带来的不便。
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water2014-12-17那个时期在牛津占主导的看法是非常不用功。你要么是不费吹灰之力而非常卓越，要么接受自己能力有限而得到第四等。因为用功而得到较好等级被视为一个“灰人”的标志，在牛津词汇中这是最坏的诨名。那个时期，物理课的安排方式使得不做功课特别容易。我进大学之前考试了一次，然后在牛津待了三年，只有一次终考等着我们。我计算过一次，我在那里的三年期间大约只用功一千小时，平均每天一小时。我对自己懒惰并不感到自豪，但那时候我的态度和多数同学并无二致。我们倾向于绝对厌倦和觉得没有任何东西值得努力追求。我患病的一个后果就是把这一切都改变了。当你要面临夭折时，你就意识到生命是值得过的，因为有很多事情等你去做。