• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Stephen Hawking once threw a time travelers party but only published the information afterwards. Nobody showed up.

    I know this kinda sounds like a joke but it’s a real thing he did.

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      15 hours ago

      While I greatly respect(ed) Stephen Hawking, if I could time travel, going to his party would not be anywhere near the top of my list.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s weird to think that they would show up.

      The earth is here for likely trillions and trillions of years. 2008 or whenever is like a spec in a sea of time. And probably not very interesting

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        5 hours ago

        Because if he didn’t then they couldn’t.

        But what if they did show up, then afterwards he chose not to publish the information?