Stephen Hawking Reddit AMA Questions and Answers

A collection of questions and answers from a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' session with physicist Stephen Hawking in 2015. The session was conducted in two parts, with questions gathered in July and answers posted later in October. The dataset likely contains the text of user-submitted questions and Hawking's written responses.

Use Cases

• Analyze public interest in science topics based on the questions submitted.
• Study the style and content of expert scientific communication based on Hawking's answers.
• Train or evaluate question-answering models on a corpus of real-world Q&A pairs.

Strengths

• Features direct responses from a prominent scientist, Stephen Hawking.
• Captures a notable public engagement event hosted by Reddit, WIRED, and Nokia.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column structure are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Reddit /r/science, WIRED, and Nokia.

Collection Method

User-submitted questions curated by moderators, with answers written by Stephen Hawking.

Time Range

Questions gathered in July 2015, answers posted in October 2015.