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Stephen Hawking’s farewell: As his ashes were buried, his voice was beamed into space

by Lindsey Bever June 15 at 12:59 PM Email the author

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Around 1,000 people attended a memorial service in London for British physicist Stephen Hawking on June 15, as his ashes were laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. (Reuters)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/15/stephen-hawkings-farewell-as-his-ashes-were-buried-his-voice-was-beamed-into-space/?utm_term=.d08afd5843aa

The universe that Stephen Hawking spent a lifetime studying now knows his voice.

Following Hawking's death in March, the renowned British physicist, who had battled a debilitating degenerative motor neuron disease for decades, was remembered at a memorial service Friday at Westminster Abbey. His ashes were buried between Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton and later covered with a gravestone —
etched with an equation he used to teach the world about black holes.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/stephen-hawking-equation-gravestone-westminster-14788881

But at the same time his ashes were lowered into the ground, his voice was beamed from Earth thousands of light-years away [

During today's Service of Thanksgiving, the ashes of #StephenHawking were buried in Scientists' Corner. Professor Hawking's family placed flowers and a medal in the grave. pic.twitter.com/CgwoVYlDKU

— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) June 15, 2018

] toward the nearest known black hole in the universe.

It was a “symbolic gesture,” his loved ones said, that finally let him travel into space.

[Stephen Hawking, physicist who came to symbolize the power of the human mind, dies at 76]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/stephen-hawking-physicist-who-came-to-symbolize-the-power-of-the-human-mind-dies-at-76/2018/03/14/d4298e14-273a-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.05a556c30375

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/15/stephen-hawkings-farewell-as-his-ashes-were-buried-his-voice-was-beamed-into-space/?utm_term=.d08afd5843aa