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There Is No Heaven, It's a Fairy Tale: Hawking

The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said. In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejec-tion of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time. Hawking, who was diag-nosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shared his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with The Guardian. The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his !inure. "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said. "I regard the brain as a omputer which will stop working when its comp°. nents fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for bro-ken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark," he added. Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design, in which he asserted that there is no need for a cre-ator to explain the exis-tence of the universe. The book provoked a backlash from some religious leaders including the chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, who accused Hawking of com-mitting an "elementary fallacy" of logic. The 69-year-old physicist fell seriously ill after a lec-ture tour in the US in 2009 and was taken to Adde-nbrookes hospital in an episode that sparked grave concerns for his health. He has since returned to his Cambridge depart-ment as director of research. The physicist's remarks draw a stark line
between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos. In his bestselling 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking drew on the device so beloved of Einstein, when he descri-bed what it would mean for scientists to develop a "theory of everything" - a set of equations that desc-ribed every particle and force in the entire uni-verse. —Agencies

I'M NOT AFRAID OF DEATH' 

■ HIS REMARKS draw a stark line between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the work-ings of the cosmos. 

THE 69-YEAR-OLD physi-cist fell seriously ill after a lecture tour in the US in 2009 

■ HAWKING rejected the notion of life beyond death and emphasised the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good use of our lives. 

WOMAN I POWER - 31-year-old Australian to run 4,000 km across India in August

Meet The Youngest Girl to Run Desert Marathons :

The absolutely petite woman who introduces herself as Samantha Gash is a far cry from what one would expect when one is waiting to see an avid ultra-marathoner. Diminutive but fttll of fire, 31-year-old Samantha (she could pass for 20), who was in Bengaluru for the Australia India Youth Dialogue 2016, has taken on the most extreme territories in the world, running in some cases for worthy caus-es and in others simply for the challenge. She is the youngest person and the first woman to have done all
four desert ultra-marathons rw. "I did the driest desert -Atacama, the windiest. which is in China, the hottest — the Sahara and the coldest — Antarctica," she said. The hottest and the coldest deserts took place after a gap of only four weeks, because the window for racing through Antar-ctica is so small. Ultra-marathoners carry their sustenance in their backpacks, including food. sleeping gear, etc. "I'm not the tallest person in the world, I'm under five feet," she laughs. "When you are on an ultra marathon, you pack everything you need. I ran through the Sahara desert carrying 20 percent of my body weight on my back! It boils down to 
the smallest details — I cut off the handle off my tooth-brush and carry only the bristles because that saves

me a good 10 grams. Everything counts," she added. In August, she will embark on a 4,000-km run across the breadth of India, to further education amongst women. The pro-ceeds will go to World Vision, a global NGO work-ing with poor children. "In Rajasthan, for instance, there are commu-nities which send off daugh-ters to the sex trade. If they don't, the girls are married very young. I've learned one thing, though — it's not all black and white. "It's easy to say child marriage is awful, but if flesh trade is the alter-native, which would you choose?" she says.