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Stephen Hawking
To all stakeholders: Stephen Hawking will have a party, and we are all invited. There are only two problems: the party was 16 years ago, and the British physicist died 7. But for a time traveler, that would be… details.
The famous British physicist Stephen Hawkingwho organized in 2009 a party for travelers in time.
Unfortunately, no one appearedbut in fact Hawking did not expect anything else. His “retroactive” party was a way of confirming that time travel is a impossibility dictated by the laws physics – At least, in the timeline of our universe.
If it were possible, the physicists say, we would have dozens of temporal tourists to fill the streets of Chiado or Baixa do Porto. They would walk around…
Not happy with the theory, Hawking wanted to do an empirical experience: he invited any space travelers to appear at your party “But it only sent the invitations after the balloons were withered, recalls.”
On June 28, 2009, at 12:00 pm, the physicist placed himself in front of the entrance door of an elegant lounge at Cambridge University in the UK and waited for the guests to arrive.
The place had been decorated with balloons and the main table was full of appetizers and, Of course, champagne, the favorite drink of the famous British physicist. Hawking He waited, waited, waited. But no one appearedcounts a.
“It was a pity!“The scientist recalled in one of the documentary series“ The Universe According to Stephen Hawking ”by Discovery Channel.
“I like simple experiences and… champagne. So I tried to combine two of my favorite things to see if the time travel from the future to the past was possible, ”explained the British scientist in the same documentary, broadcast in 2010.
To test the idea, Hawking didn’t tell anyone that she was going to give the party until she was over. Only then did you send the invitation for the event, which included the Exact coordinates in time and spaceorganized at the traditional Gonville and Caius College School in Cambridge.
“Is cordially invited to the party for travelers in the time organized by Professor Stephen Hawking“, He could read in the invitation, which also included the ironic explanation that guests did not need to confirm your presence.
“I hope copies of this invitation survive for several thousand years In one format, ”added the scientist, whose book“ A Brief History of Time ”from 1988 sold more than ten million copies around the world.
“Perhaps, one day, someone who lives in the future can find this information and use a time machine To come to my party, proving that one day travel in time will be possible. ”
Seeing that the clock pointer had already passed at 12:00 pm, Hawking was not disappointed and preferred before use your famous sense of humorA: “I was waiting for See the future Miss Universe to enter through that door“.
In 2012, the physicist explained in a seattle science festival colloquium in the US Einstein Relativity Theory It seems to offer the possibility that we can deform space-time in such a way that we could travel to the past. ”
“However, it is likely that such deformation caused a radius of radiation that destroyed The spacecraft and perhaps the spacetime itself, ”he added. It was then that he remembered the failure of his party:” I was waiting a long time, but no one appeared. “
The British physicist died in 2018 at the age of 76. Time travelers were at the time a few days after the funeral ceremonies were performed.
Also this time, No one appeared. A lack of respect for one of the greatest physicists in history (past and future) of humanity!
