Hawking was a well-known theoretical physicist and cosmologist who, despite his disabilities, never gave up his scientific career and eventually achieved high scientific achievements, especially in the study of black holes and the unification of relativistic quantum mechanics. Of course, he also has a very successful popular science book, which is an entry-level reading for almost all physics enthusiasts and is widely circulated all over the world.
As a scientific giant, Hawking is not only interested in the things in his profession, his involvement is very extensive, so he often puts forward his views in public, which are recorded and sorted out into so-called "Hawking prophecies".
Many people see the words "Hawking prophecy", the first thought is a false scientific god stick, but the real situation is not the case, "Hawking prophecy" is Hawking's own views on some phenomena, or according to the actual situation to make predictions about what may happen in the future.
The first is the "Fireball Earth", which is simply that Hawking believes that the Earth will become hotter and hotter, and that the future will become a large fireball that is no longer suitable for human survival and reproduction.
Changes in the earth's climate and environment are a common topic, and under normal circumstances, the earth's environment can heal itself, because the complex ecosystem is still very resistant to retrograde behavior, but these cannot resist human madness. The development of human civilization has rapidly changed the environment in which we live, and the amplitude is relatively large, which makes the self-healing function of the earth lose its role, the earth's ecological environment gradually deteriorates, and it also triggers changes in the climate and environment, and the final result is the frequent occurrence of extreme weather.
Hawking believes that with the development of human beings, the temperature on the earth will become higher and higher, and eventually become a hot fireball, and all life will lose them to their original survival home.
The rising average temperature of the earth has long ceased to be news, for example, there have been many cases of extreme heat this year, and the northwest region of the United States and Canada has rare extreme heat in June and July this year, so Hawking's first prediction may be gradually coming true.
The second is the development of "artificial intelligence", which is not only Hawking, many scientists and scholars have put forward a similar point of view, that is, the development of artificial intelligence, many science fiction film and television works appear in the bridge, that is, artificial intelligence may no longer be controlled by humans after the development of a certain extent, and eventually have self-awareness to become an artificial intelligence empire, when they may no longer be a good helper for human beings, if this happens, it will also be one of the disasters of mankind.
From his own point of view, Hawking is more worried that human civilization will face the provocation of artificial intelligence in the future, so Hawking believes that it is necessary to be vigilant against the development of artificial intelligence.
Third, Hawking does not want humans to actively seek out extraterrestrial civilizations, which is very clear, Hawking has always believed that there is life outside the earth, they may be hidden in a corner, and we can not guarantee that every biological civilization is good, so taking the initiative to find extraterrestrial civilizations takes a certain risk, but human beings are tireless and have been looking for extraterrestrial life on the road. For example, Voyager I, launched in 1977, has been discovered for 44 years today, 23 billion kilometers from Earth, and it carries sufficient information about human civilization in the solar system.
For extraterrestrial life, many people, including scientists and scholars, generally believe that extraterrestrial life exists, although they have not been found at present, but the universe is too big, from a statistical point of view, extraterrestrial life exists.
The development of the fourth "gene editing" technology, Hawking himself is more disgusted with gene editing technology, he believes that this technology is playing the role of God, if it is uncontrolled and wanton development, it is likely that the gene editing technology will lead to the emergence of "super mutants" or "super humans" among humans, they have unconventional skills, although the starting point is good, but it may eventually lead to a rupture within human civilization.
In fact, the application scope of gene editing technology is still relatively extensive, the most common is to change human genes, fundamentally and completely treat diseases, or space exploration is more appropriate, after all, astronauts in space to experience high temperature, low temperature and radiation environment, through gene editing technology can obtain super humans.
Say at the end
The first of Hawking's four major predictions is actually gradually coming true, after all, the earth's average temperature has risen year after year, and the impact of the greenhouse effect has never stopped. It is difficult to say whether other predictions will be fulfilled in the future, but after all, these predictions are a kind of worry or warning of hawking scientists about the future state of mankind, and they are all likely to occur.
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