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Hawking’s Party, the Cosmonaut’s 20 Milliseconds, and the Problem With “Now”
Stephen Hawking at his time travelers' party In 2009, Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers and mailed the invitations after it ended. Nobody showed up. If you like your science with a clean punchline, you could stop there. Case closed: no guests, no time travel. But physics rarely gives you a satisfying ending on the first page. Hawking’s stunt is better read as a thesis statement: if time travel exists, it is not going to behave like a tourist attraction. It is
Tonmay Saha
Jan 158 min read
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