THE THEORY OF NOTHING
by
Anthonystjoseph
HBO is premiering the movie, ‘The Theory
of Everything’, about the life of the celebrated physicist Doctor Stephen
Hawking who is confined to a wheelchair by the crippling disease ALS and
although a lot of the world is enamored with this gentleman, I am not. I remember the week he made worldwide
headlines with the most startling and illegitimate claim ever because it was
the same week I got startling and legitimate news about my life. It was the week the doctors informed me that
if I did not undergo heart surgery then my life would come to an early
end. I decided that I did not want to
endure the drastic heart surgery they were suggesting and referred to Stephen Hawking’s
idiotic claim when I told them no to the operation. You see, that week, Doctor Stephen Hawking
had made worldwide news stating that there was no such thing as Heaven. The reason I say that his claim is idiotic is
due to the FACT that you cannot as a human say whether heaven exist or
not. You can say that you do or do not
believe in heaven but you cannot say that it does or does not exist with
certainty because as a human you cannot be sure. However, I can say that I do believe in
Heaven because I know what I have felt, I know what I have seen. So as the doctors tried to surround me in my
hospital room with specialist, I informed them all that I am NOT Stephen
Hawking and I know I have a place to go to so the answer is a ‘no’ on your
barbaric heart surgery just to keep me around for your new Mercedes.
As one of the doctors smiled at my
reference to Stephen Hawking, I politely excused myself and headed toward the
door and my own efforts towards good health.
So I am going to try and watch this movie and try and understand what
this man in his crippling situation has led him to believe that there is no
Heaven and how on earth his spirituality has been crippled as well to help him
get to the decisive decision that Heaven definitely does not exist. I must say, I myself have led a life of
struggle and persecution but these factors have seemed to lead me closer to God
whereas they have led Stephen Hawking further from God. Here we go…
Although I thought I was going to be bored
with this man’s physicist mind and life, I found myself tearing up at the
thirteen minute mark of the movie due to realizing the remarkable nature of his
mind and knowing the direction his physical deterioration was going to take was
an overwhelming feeling and my emotions poured out in his direction. While still in college he is already
discounting the idea of a God or higher being saying the idea alone of a higher
being would get in the way of his scientific expectations on himself. I realize it is not the crippling ALS disease
that has driven him from God, the idea of no such thing as a higher being was
there before he even knew of his illness.
Young Stephen Hawking is still in college
when he collapses on the sidewalk and is then diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s
disease (ALS). He is told by the doctor
that he has two years to live… Still no
sign of God in his thoughts.
Although Stephen continues his life
confined to a wheelchair and eventually losing his ability to speak he carries
on in his teachings. He writes a very
successful book titled ‘A Brief History of Time’ and goes on to meet the Queen
of England and tour the world giving lectures with an electronic apparatus that
gives him the access to communicating his thoughts through electronically
spoken words. His wife, who does believe
in God, pushes him in the area of spiritual belief and we eventually see a
break in his atheistic thoughts. He
continues to live past the doctors expectations of two years as I continue to
live past mine and Stephen continues to last decades upon decades.
Towards the end of the film, Stephen
Hawking is asked in a cinematically climactic moment, “Professor Hawking, you have said that you do not believe in God. Do you have a philosophy of life that helps
you?” Mister Hawking takes a long pause. He then watches an audience member drop her
pen and you are led by the film to remember decades ago when he first started
dropping things which were the first signs of his illness. He
then imagines himself getting up from his wheelchair and walking into the audience
and picking up the pen and handing it to the woman. With an extremely contemplative and almost
sorrowful look on his face he eventually replies, “It is clear that we are just an advanced breed of primates on a minor
planet orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a
hundred billion galaxies, but ever since the dawn of civilization people have
craved for an understanding of the underlying order of the world. Fairmont [sic] told me something very special
about the boundary conditions of the Universe.
And what can be more special than that there is no boundary, and there
should be no boundary to human endeavor.
We are all different. However bad
life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there is life, there is hope.” So in his reference to hope it turns out that
Mister Stephen Hawking is starting to realize that there may be something out
there larger than us and possibly guiding and watching over us… At least that is what he is now letting the
masses believe in regards to his thoughts.
Well I will tell you that there is definitely something out there
guiding and watching over us and in the vein of my stories this month which all
fall under the category of ‘spiritual’, my next story will prove it…
But in regards to Doctor Stephen Hawking
and his theories on life and the universe I will still stick to my own
theory. For while some call his works
the ‘The Theory of Everything’, I shall call his work and suggestion that there
is no God and that there is no Heaven, ‘The Theory of Nothing’.
By
Anthonystjoseph
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