At final send-off
As a final tribute, the voice of late Stephen Hawking will be sent into space by the European Space Agency today as the British physicist is laid to rest after a service at Londonโs Westminster Abbey, between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.
Following the service, Hawkingโs words of peace and hope โ set to music by Greek composer Vangelisโ will be beamed towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lives in a binary system with a fairly ordinary orange dwarf star.
Hawkingโs daughter Lucy added that the music is a โbeautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our fatherโs presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind.โ
The wheelchair-bound scientist had died in March after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe and mysteries of black holes.
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