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Stephen Hawking may have left this world almost four years ago, however, his legacy and great genius continue to give much to talk about.
For GQ Mexico
Not for less, the British theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and scientific popularizer had an unprecedented genius and his peculiar way of thinking and seeing life continues to amaze us and to be a topic of conversation.
Months before leaving in 2018, Stephen Hawking offered one of the statements that shook the scientific community the most, stating that humanity will destroy the Earth, predicting that our planet was destined to become a ball of fire in the next 600 years.
As he saw it, the excessive increase in population and the increasing demands for energy will lead humanity directly to catastrophe, for which he believed it necessary that man turn to look promptly at the stars to avoid this potential destiny.
“Our physical resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. We have gifted our planet with disastrous climate change. Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar caps, deforestation and annihilation of animal species. We are quite ignorant and thoughtless. We are running out of space and the only spaces we can go to are other worlds, ”he said in 2017, during a conference at the International Starmus Festival.
“It is time to explore other solar systems. Diversifying may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. It is time to explore other solar systems. Expanding ourselves may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth. “
And although this is not something really new for the scientific community already working on the exploration of the Moon and Mars, Stephen Hawking was a faithful believer that the solution to this dilemma was to bet on a more distant zone, specifically the Alpha star system. Centauri, to “move”.
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