Stephen Hawking’s Uplifting Message: You Can Get Yourself Out of Any Hole, No Matter What Their Size

Sev­er­al weeks back, you might recall, Stephen Hawk­ing deliv­ered two Rei­th lec­tures over the radio air­waves of the BBC –one called “Do Black Holes Have No Hair?,” the oth­er “Black Holes Ain’t as Black as They Are Paint­ed.” Both were fea­tured here, accom­pa­nied by some live­ly chalk­board ani­ma­tions.

Above you can watch an out­take from the sec­ond lec­ture, this time ani­mat­ed in a dif­fer­ent aes­thet­ic. It’s trip­py, hyp­not­ic, and unless you’re ground­ed in the mate­r­i­al, the talk will leave you a lit­tle baffled–at least until the end, when Hawk­ing leaves us with a life-affirm­ing mes­sage any­one can relate to. “If you feel like you’re in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.” At once, he’s talk­ing lit­er­al­ly about black holes that are no longer thought to con­sume every­thing they encounter, and the metaphor­i­cal ones we all run into, some­where along the way, in life.

On that uplift­ing note, anoth­er week begins…

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Relat­ed Con­tent

Stephen Hawking’s Lec­tures on Black Holes Now Ful­ly Ani­mat­ed with Chalk­board Illus­tra­tions

Free Online Physics Cours­es

Psy­che­del­ic Ani­ma­tion Takes You Inside the Mind of Stephen Hawk­ing

The Big Ideas of Stephen Hawk­ing Explained with Sim­ple Ani­ma­tion

Watch A Brief His­to­ry of Time, Errol Mor­ris’ Film About the Life & Work of Stephen Hawk­ing