I haven't heard that myself. Usually people with this disease are fully cognitive, trapped in their atrophied bodies. But due to the lack of mobility, they often sit or lay down and can only think. Professor Hawking was already a genius physicist when the disease started effecting him. He had though...

Here's a good one on how large the Universe may actually be.

Spoiler

Billions of times larger than what we can observe with the Hubble Telescope.

Cosmic Journeys: How Large is the Universe?

Here is a simpler and shorter video that touches on the basics of quarks:

Quarks: Inside the Atom

Here is a rather long presentation given by a particle physicist in front of Google employees.

Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass

Welcome to BookTalk.org Wonk! Thanks for coming over. It's good to have another physicist\mathematician to get their views on these subjects. I myself question whether quantum effects cause multiple universes every time an observation is made, instead quantum mechanics\field theory is the result of ...

The Standard Model of Particle Physics/Cosmology (Part 1 of 6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us6BZ1Dp2_8 The other 5 parts are here . The Standard Model of Particle Physics from Wikipedia The standard model of particle physics is a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear int...

Thanks Dexter. Amazon.com has mixed reviews.

I can understand the statement “philosophy is dead” in regard to theories. But what about hypothesis? Are modern scientists who form a hypothesis different from past philosophers? It is my understanding that philosophy and hypothesis both start with an idea, an idea formed by observation. It is not...

'turtles all the way down'. I always found that ignorant quote unsettling funny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down Astronomers, Astrophysicists, Cosmologists, Particle Physicists and others are collecting an exponential amount of data about our observable Universe using today's ...

I believe Hawking's hypothesis is that life evolved on Earth because we live in a Universe that supports the various chemical bonds (a couple dozen precise physical constants) to allow complex molecules to develop, multiply, evolve and then it's survival of the fittest for billions of years. Our Ear...