Who are these people? I really need to know!

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Ok so its 3 in the morning here andI'm bored and I'm on poker stars looking around for some tournaments and such and have been seeing these two names for a while now. I really need to know.....Who in the hell are Hubble and Hawkings????
 
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They're physicists. Hubble is the guy they named the space telescope (a telescope placed on a satellite) after, you may have heard of it.

Stephen Hawkings is known mostly for being one of the people who "came up" with black holes. He did a lot more, but it's not fair to say that he predicted them (that was Einstein, implicitly) and he also did not coin the phrase - but he was prominent in understanding what exactly a black hole was and how it works.
 
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Oh man i've been wondering that for a while myself too. Explains the Galileo freeroll too and all the others I can't think off at the moment. Kinda feel dumb until someone points it out to you lol
 
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Ok I get it now Poker STARS haha I'm an idiot....Thank a lot F Paulsson. I knew they had to do with something, just wasn't sure what.
 
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F Paulsson said:
They're physicists. Hubble is the guy they named the space telescope (a telescope placed on a satellite) after, you may have heard of it.

Stephen Hawkings is known mostly for being one of the people who "came up" with black holes. He did a lot more, but it's not fair to say that he predicted them (that was Einstein, implicitly) and he also did not coin the phrase - but he was prominent in understanding what exactly a black hole was and how it works.
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Cool, thanks Fred. Which one was the better limit player?
 
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Im guessing Stephen Hawking would win more often as he's still alive :)

Plus he has probably got a 'rigged' button on his computer/chair :rolleyes: :D
 
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F Paulsson said:
They're physicists. Hubble is the guy they named the space telescope (a telescope placed on a satellite) after, you may have heard of it.

Stephen Hawkings is known mostly for being one of the people who "came up" with black holes. He did a lot more, but it's not fair to say that he predicted them (that was Einstein, implicitly) and he also did not coin the phrase - but he was prominent in understanding what exactly a black hole was and how it works.
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Very cool, I did not know this myself either.

Freddy is so awesome, he knows everything!!!:D
 
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Thanks Freddy, how do you know all this, i would have never figured that out,,Your one Smart Guy Fred,, Thanks again , buck:cool:
 
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I've always had a soft spot for physics (especially relativity and astronomy).

For those interested in some popular-science type modern physics, I recommend Hawkings' book, "A Brief History of Time." It's well written, in an accessible style, and shows just how cool physics really is.
 
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With the exception of Hawkings, the others would probably consider themselves astronomers.

thus the tie in with poker STARS!.

Hubble was hired as a janitor.
 
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Point taken, even if I consider astronomy a branch of physics. And Galileo would probably just have referred to himself as a "scientist". :)
 
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