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Stephen Hawking Going To Canada

Posted by timothy on from the making-reservations-on-a-guild-heighliner dept.

thepacketmaster writes "A previous Slashdot article I posted mentioned the possibility of Stephen Hawking coming to Canada. The Toronto Star now reports that he has accepted the position. Hawking will hold the title of distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics."

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  1. Distinguished research chair? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good, he's probably due for an upgrade.

    1. Re:Distinguished research chair? by owlnation · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder if they can change his voice synthesizer to pronounce "out" and "about" as "oot" and aboot," and of course add in a few random eh's for good measure.

  2. Great news. by liquidMONKEY · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least if he ever gives lectures and they start to fall asleep, he can shoot lasers out of his eyeballs.

  3. sacred cow killing! by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Funny

    I seem to recall that he did a lot of research into black holes. Maybe he's done studying now and is leaving the country so he can get outside the event horizon to publish his findings.

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    1. Re:sacred cow killing! by VirusEqualsVeryYes · · Score: 5, Funny

      I seem to recall that he did a lot of research into black holes. Maybe he's done studying now and is leaving the country so he can get outside the event horizon to publish his findings.

      Yes, perhaps he could teach you a thing or two about them. ;)

    2. Re:sacred cow killing! by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, Hawking did suggest that anything at the event horizon would generate anti-matter of an equivalent mass... So the real Hawking could emerge, but not without sending an anti-hawking back. We can test this theory by waiting for the anti-Hawking to run for public office.

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  4. Hawking radiation by Veggiesama · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's probably moving there to study the event horizon surrounding a certain black hole, otherwise known as the US financial market.

    We poured over $700 billion into it, and I doubt even he will discover Hawking radiation leaking out. Maybe a few nickels, but that's it.

  5. Re:He is both coming to Canada and not simultaneou by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I see a flaw in your logic... See, crossing the US/Canada border *is* the event horizon. At that point hawking will split into a finite number of hawkings will cross the event horizon, while an equal number of anti-hawkings will stay inside. I'm guessing they'll head to Ohio as soon as they figure out their better halves are sitting down for tea.

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  6. A new chair by clarkkent09 · · Score: 5, Funny

    distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

    I don't know, a research chair sounds a bit dangerous, however distinguished it may be. I think he better stick with his current chair until this new one is at least in beta testing...

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  7. Re:Too bad.. by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our plan is to give him free health care and poutine, and see which one wins.

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  8. Re:Meh by stephenhawking · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would never move to America anyway, too many creationists.