Hawking's time traveller party

On 28 June 2009, British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travellers in the University of Cambridge. The physicist arranged for balloons, champagne, and nibbles for his guests, but did not send out the invites until the following day, after the party was over.

The party was held at the Gonville and Caius College on Trinity Street (52° 12' 21" N, 0° 7' 4.7" E) at 12:00 UT on 28 June 2009. In preparing for the event, Hawking said he hoped that copies of the invite might survive for thousands of years, and that "one day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party, proving that time travel will one day be possible".

Hawking waited in the room for a few hours before leaving, and no visitors arrived. He regarded the event as "experimental evidence that time travel is not possible".

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 * Stephen Hawking – Time Traveller's Party on YouTube