Indo-Asian News Service
New York, July 27: If you have questions in your mind regarding alien life or dark matter, then you have a golden chance to ask theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking on the social networking site Reddit. Dark matter is a hypothetical kind of matter that cannot be seen with telescopes but would account for most of the matter in the universe.
The renowned physicist will address the issue of artificial intelligence and other topics at his first Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) forum, web portal CNET reported. Typically, a Reddit AMA is live as people throw questions at the person and he or she tries to respond as best as possible. But the format for Hawking will differ from the usual pattern. For Hawking’s AMA, the users will have to pose the questions ahead of time, and he will answer them over the following weeks.
Specifically, you can submit your questions from July 27 to August 4, at reddit.com/r/science and Hawking will respond over the next few weeks. Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), uses a computer to communicate. So the delayed format will allow him the time necessary to answer questions.