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If Einstein lived forever and society reorganized around sustaining the elderly instead of having children, there would be no Hawking.

That’s the point—there are dozens of Einsteins born every year, and growing up as children amidst the new theories actually makes them stronger than 130 year old Einstein would be.

If you are really concerned about Einstein’s immortal embodiment, you would see that he is alive, and he is 10 years old and he lives in an abusive household in a bad school district. Go find him (her?) and get her into a good physics classroom and make sure she has a safe place to eat dinner and do her homework.

Keeping Hawking alive is both harder and less valuable.




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