Stephen Hawking sent invitations to a time traveler party in 2009, hoping that if time travelers saw them, they would travel back in time to attend. The party was a flop, but Hawking remained hopeful.
Speculation about time travel has been a sci-fi trope for centuries, but even some of the world’s most respected scientists have felt the pull of the impossible. Take the late Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist and author of works such as A Brief History of Time. In 2009, Hawking carried out his own time travel experiment by sending invitations to a time traveler party, but only after the event was already over. He thought that if time travelers from the future saw his invitation, they could travel back in time to the party. Sadly, the party was a flop, with only Hawking and a few bottles of champagne in attendance. Still, Hawking kept hope, saying perhaps the invitations could eventually find their way into capable hands.
A Brief History of Stephen Hawking:
In a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hawking plays poker with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton and teases Newton about the apple on the head story.
Hawking called his debilitating disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) a blessing in disguise: “I was forced to travel across the universe in my mind.”
In early life, Hawking was an average learner and did not learn to read until age 8.
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