STEPHEN HAWKING: No Possibility of God in Our Universe.

About those gasoline lines on the Eastern Seaboard, Elliptic has reported:

That the Darkside ransonware group received $5 million from Colonial Pipeline through a Bitcoin wallet.
Turns out a German chemical distribution company Brenntag on May 11 also sent $4.4 million, to the same cyberspace to prevent the leakage of stolen data.
There were other incidents, as that wallet has received a total of $17.5 million since March, and $12.5 million were re-sent to other sites.

Just today, though, there is uncertainty about what exactly has happened to the remaining $5 million, for that location ceased operations.
One theory is that the U.S. government was able to do this.
Then again, nothing has been announced.

Stephen Hawking might well have been the smartest person alive, then he passed away three years ago. Perhaps Paul Allen, who with Bill Gates founded Microsoft, might well have then become the smartest. Allen scored 10 points higher in the SAT than Gates, with a perfect 1600 (the max before 1995). But Allen passed away soon after Hawking.

So maybe 69-year old physicist Edward Witten of string theory fame is now the smartest. He says that consciousness will remain a mystery.

According to this list, Terence Tao from Australia with roots in Hong Kong, who is now teaching at UCLA, has the second highest ever IQ (225-230---William James Sidis, an American who passed away in 1944 was #1...250-300). As best as I can determine, Tao has not bothered to venture into anything spiritual.

But about Hawking, who is famously known to be very intelligent, his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, says there is No Possibility of God in Our Universe.

He says, I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing.
If you accept, as I do, that the laws of nature are fixed, then it doesn't take long to ask: What role is there for God?
He was a champion of the Big Bang Theory, and that the combined laws of gravity, relativity, quantum physics and a few other rules could explain everything that ever happened or ever will.
If you like, you can say the laws are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence.

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