as someone else said: now his time travel experiment is worthless, cause there’s a very good reason no one from the future wanted to go party with him
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He was dead when we found out, how the fuck would he come back in time?
Being able to time travel implies he could also jump forward in time (e.g. to check his posthumous reputation).
But why does Stephen Hawking not being able to time travel mean time travel doesn't exist?
Probably a reference to his “time travelers party”, a tongue-in-cheek way he used to suggest backwards time travel is impossible
Maybe no one came to his party because they knew he was on the list
Or maybe the time travelers went back and faked his name onto the list as a prank.
Ah right, so they would have given him the technology to do so i guess is what it's implying
He would have crushed the time traveler into goo and stolen the technology
Why would they do that, they know he's on the list.
Going forward is sadly the only way we can time travel. I explained this to Stephen in a couple weeks.
Yeah...a time traveller would be able to jump ~~forward~~ less backward in time to check that.
But Stephen Hawking wasn't a time traveller, he just wanted time travellers to visit him.
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How would he even go about removing it. Its not like "the files" are a stack of random paper pages in a safe somewhere.
He could go back in time and give his caretaker a note to give to him a week before they met that said "And STAY AWAY from that Epstein... He's a bad egg!".
But he’s dead not a time traveler.
Which theory explains why he has not accomplished the above.
I think the point is he was attempting to reach out to time travelers... or skeptically making fun of the idea with the time travelers party that no one showed up for.
If you were a time traveller, would you want to go back in time to hang out with someone mentioned in the Epstein files?
This all proves that time travellers are real, because they didn't go to his party knowing about his Epstein links.
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Was he implicated in nefarious shit?
Afaik Epstein had a thing for physics and other physicists are in the files because he liked the subject.
Lawrence Krauss is one who is definitely not innocent based on his disgusting messages.
Yeah, there's all kinds of names in there, but not in a bad context.
There's even the manual for bash since it was probably installed somewhere on his machine/servers
Does anybody actually believe that Stephen Hawking was involved in the illegal activities?
I believe that he was probably a sexual person in some form and he probably had money so maybe he might have paid for sex. But I have no idea really.
Another factor here is that Epstein was obsessed with physics and being friends with physicists.
While Epstein was always a monster. He could hide it around certain people.
But from everything I've read, the monster always comes out. And we all know what being Epstein's friend eventually entails.
That's pure speculation. Your argument is what is referred to as "guilt by association". Your argument has no basis. It wouldn't hold up in court.
These people don't care. I got downvoted to hell by saying the same thing. Apparently factual evidence isn't the norm in here.
You're probably right. A story is more important than facts to them.
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Maybe in his earlier life. He was married more than once and had three children.
His name does appear in the Epstein files, but he was never actually accused of anything related to Epstein. To say that Hawking was a pedophile is speculation at best.
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Maybe no one showed up to his time travel party cuz everyone knew he was a creep.
Doesn’t that just mean he never figured it out? Doesn’t mean it’s impossible for everyone forever.
he did, but that is now a seperate timeline that we are not living in
Didn't he also cheat on his wife with his caretaker?
And his movie just framed it as something like "needing" to travelling away with the nurse.
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Is it though? There's the whole causality argument, where if time travel does get invented in the future, then you can only travel back to that moment
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Irony: he authored those very papers, so his name is all over them
What if time travelers didn't want to travel back bc he was in the files?
Edit: Joke already got made and I shoulda checked.
Well hawking died before time travel was invented. Now time travelers probably visited hawking while he was on Epstien Island
Wait I thought it was someone else sharing the same name?
Nah, the dude really was quite shitty on several personal accounts
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He traveled forward to ADD his name to give additional notoriety to the files like a Chad.
Sphinx has zero logic to their words
Stymied by being dead.
That is hard truth.
Maybe that's why the time travellers didn't show? I know I wouldn't knowing what I know now.
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