Stephen Hawking's Time Travel Party – Did it Happen? How Would We Know?

If you want to attend Stephen Hawking's time travel party, you better figure out how time travel works for a journey back to 2009.

By Paul M. Sutter
Dec 1, 2023 2:00 PM
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Hey everyone, Stephen Hawking is throwing a party, and we're all invited! One catch: Stephen Hawking is dead, and the party was in 2009. Still, the invitation stands.

What if you threw a party and nobody came, but that's exactly what you expected? That's precisely what famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking did on June 28, 2009. He rented a space at Cambridge University and got balloons, decorations, and, of course, the champagne. Then he sat in the empty room for a few hours and left. 

Only then did he send out the invitation.

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