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This message of Stephen Hawking was blasted into space today

by Purvai Dua
15th Jun 18 3:24 pm

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 Londonโ€™s Westminster Abbey, between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.

Following the service, Hawkingโ€™s 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.

Hawkingโ€™s daughter Lucy added that the music is a โ€œbeautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our fatherโ€™s 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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