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Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the never-gonna-give-you-up dept.

Organisers of Prof Stephen Hawking's memorial service have seemingly left the door open for time travellers to attend. From a report: Those wishing to honour the theoretical physicist, who died in March aged 76, can apply via a public ballot. Applicants need to give their birth date - which can be any day up to 31 December 2038. Prof Hawking's foundation said the possibility of time travel had not been disproven and could not be excluded. It was London travel blogger IanVisits who noticed that those born from 2019 to 2038 were theoretically permitted to attend the service at Westminster Abbey. He said: "Professor Hawking once threw a party for time travellers, to see if any would turn up if he posted the invite after the party. None did, but it seems perfect that the memorial website allows people born in the future to attend the service. Look out for time travellers at the Abbey."

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  1. Everybody is a time traveller. by OpenSourced · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At the breakneck speed of 60 minutes per hour.

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    1. Re:Everybody is a time traveller. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, so we are interstellar space travelers also, at the breakneck speed of the universe expansion.

      So silly.

  2. Re:Dr. Hawking's final joke... by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    well if I were a time traveler I would never show up at a "party for time travelers". Just think about the problems I would have as soon as I proved to be a time traveler, at minimum I would end up locked in some secret government facility or worse.

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  3. Re:If it were possible to time travel by Sique · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it were possible to time travel then surely someone would have gone back in time and killed everyone trying to kill Muhammad. Since Islam exists, time travel clearly has been achieved.

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  4. Possibility of werewolves and vampires... by DeplorableCodeMonkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If someone went back in time and changed history, you wouldn't even know it. It's pretty much an impossible to falsify argument. So yeah, it could be true, but then Big Foot could be real along with werewolves, vampires, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. Or how about those sightings of pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea? I mean FFS, if you're going to seriously entertain the time traveler hypothesis, knowing it probably can't be falsified, you can't dismiss things like cryptids either.