It has been sent into space with a message of peace and hope by the British scientist Stephen Hawking as he was laid to rest in London’s Westminster Abbey during a liturgy.

What Hawking taught us

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Because of the debilitating effects of his motor neurone illness, the 76-year-old scientist had to rely on an artificial speech synthesiser to communicate until his death in March.
The abbey, a 1,000-year-old site of royal coronations, marriages, and burials, is home to the ashes of prominent British scientists Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrayed Stephen Hawking in the 2004 BBC film, delivered a reading during the event, which was attended by members of the public from more than 100 nations.
In 1981, Vangelis, a Greek electronic music composer, wrote the soundtrack for Chariots of Fire, a 1981 film based on the physics of space exploration.

His daughter Lucy Hawking stated in a statement that the sound was sent to the closest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which is located in a binary system with an orange dwarf star.

There’s a message of peace and hope, “SHE SAID, “ABOUT UNITY AND THE NEED FOR US TO LIVE IN HARMONY ON THIS PLANET.”

Our father’s physical presence on Earth, his desire to go into space, and his inner studies of the cosmos are all connected in one magnificent and symbolic gesture.

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One of the most important scientific discoveries of all time will lay between Newton and Darwin, whose theories of evolution have had an enormous impact on the world.
The privilege of being buried at Westminster Abbey is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer in nuclear physics, was buried there in 1937, and Joseph John Thomson, the man who discovered electrons, was buried there in 1940.
According to the Hawking family, almost 25,000 individuals registered to attend the service of thanksgiving.