What scientific questions does Mark Zuckerberg was answered? Stephen Hawking wants to know.
In a town hall-style
Q&A session held on Tuesday (June 30). Zuckerberg’s Facebook
profile, the acclaimed British physicist asked the site’s Co-founder and
CEO to share some of the “big questions in science” that he’d like to
see answered. Hawking first stated what science-related question he’d
like answered: Is there a unified theory of gravity and other forces?
(See, nothing too complicated!) Then he turned the question around on
Zuckerberg.
Perhaps not
surprisingly, the co-founder of the world’s largest social networking
site didn’t seem as interested as Hawking in solving the problems of
quantum physics. Zuckerberg replied by saying that what really interests
him are “questions about people.” [Top 10 Golden Rules of Facebook]
Specifically, he said
he’d like answers to the following questions: “What will enable us to
live forever? How do we cure all diseases? How does the brain work? How
does learning work and how [can] we empower humans to learn a million
times more?”
But that’s not all
Zuckerberg wants to know. He also said that he is “curious about whether
there is a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social
relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care
about.”
Of course, none of the
questions posed by Zuckerberg (or Hawking) have easy answers. In fact,
they might not have answers at all. But there were few other
science-related queries put forth at Yesterday’s Facebook town hall that
do have easy answers.
One of these questions
was posed by former California governor Mr.Arnold Schwarzenegger who, if
you recall, is also a former cyborg assassin (at least in the
“Terminator” movie franchise). His question: Will the machines win?
The Facebook founder didn’t miss a beat in answering. No, the machines don’t win, according to Zuckerberg.
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