I wrote:
It shows the limits on how much he actually cared about educating the public.

And here is a video that shows the limits of how much Stephen Hawking cared about educating his own daughter:

'My Father, Stephen Hawking' (World Science Festival, June 14, 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVR4QyiqMc&t=5m16s

Quote:
"HERE HE IS FLOATING IN ZERO GRAVITY." -Lucy Hawking

She's speaking to this photo of her father Stephen Hawking on the Zero-G airplane flight:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RVVR4QyiqMc/maxresdefault.jpg


This leaves three possible explanations:
- Stephen Hawking himself had a deficient understanding of gravity,
- Stephen Hawking did not care enough to teach his own daughter very basic info about what gravity is and what gravity isn't, or
- Lucy Hawking DOES know that zero-g is not "zero gravity", but that she does not care about using accurate terminology.


This video of Hawking's daughter, taken together with that video title posted on his website, leads me to lean toward the middle conclusion.

Hawking died with a reputation for being a great educator. But these two videos stand as stark examples of his limits in caring about educating people on accurate physics.

This video here was posted to the WSF YouTube channel on Mar 18, 2015. As with his website's error, it is easy to imagine that there were people who contacted him to let him know about this erroneous statement made by his daughter. To the time of his death, this gave three years for a correction to be posted.

That was never done.

~ CT



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Here is the entire video description appears today, with no correction:
(and no correction pinned in the comments section either)

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Published on Mar 18, 2015 · 3 years ago

Journalist and author Lucy Hawking describes what it was like to grow up with Stephen Hawking as a father. From his childhood—where his teachers didn't believe he would amount to anything—to his struggles with ALS, the disease that would take away his ability to move or speak on his own. But Lucy demonstrates that through it all, he persevered and became one of the greatest minds of all time.

Original Program Date: June 14, 2009

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Caption author (Hungarian)
bedobos
Caption author (English)
Asmaa Jama
Category
Science & Technology
License
Standard YouTube License
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