The trademark computer-generated voice of the late Stephen Hawking will be broadcast out to space in a final send off for the late genius Friday.Hawking’s words have been set to a score by composer Vangelis, and will be beamed toward the nearest black hole.
Hawking, a British physicist who revolutionized the world’s understanding of black holes and the understanding the cosmos even as his paralysis confined him to a wheelchair, will be interred at Westminster Abbey following a memorial service.
He died at his home in Cambridge, England, on March 14 at the age of 76.
After readings – including from astronaut Tim Peake and actor Benedict Cumberbatch – Hawking will be laid to rest between science greats Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin in a ceremony that will be witnessed by around 1,000 members of the public.
As a final tribute, the voice that Hawking lost to a neuromuscular disease known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, and then regained with the assistance of a computer, will be sent into space by the European Space Agency.
Hawking’s daughter Lucy told the BBC that the musical tribute represents a “beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our father’s presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind.”
“The broadcast will be beamed towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lives in a binary system with a fairly ordinary orange dwarf star,” she said.
“It is a message of peace and hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony on this planet.”FOLLOW fb.me/jaiyeorieblog m.me/jaiyeorieblog ... spill TEA ABOUT THE TOPIC ABOVE.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
Hawking, a British physicist who revolutionized the world’s understanding of black holes and the understanding the cosmos even as his paralysis confined him to a wheelchair, will be interred at Westminster Abbey following a memorial service.
He died at his home in Cambridge, England, on March 14 at the age of 76.
After readings – including from astronaut Tim Peake and actor Benedict Cumberbatch – Hawking will be laid to rest between science greats Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin in a ceremony that will be witnessed by around 1,000 members of the public.
As a final tribute, the voice that Hawking lost to a neuromuscular disease known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, and then regained with the assistance of a computer, will be sent into space by the European Space Agency.
Hawking’s daughter Lucy told the BBC that the musical tribute represents a “beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our father’s presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind.”
“The broadcast will be beamed towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lives in a binary system with a fairly ordinary orange dwarf star,” she said.
“It is a message of peace and hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony on this planet.”FOLLOW fb.me/jaiyeorieblog m.me/jaiyeorieblog ... spill TEA ABOUT THE TOPIC ABOVE.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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