Hawking was interred in the abbey’s Scientists’ Corner, beneath a stone inscribed: “Here lies what was mortal of…

June 16, 2018 Comments (0)
Hawking was interred in the abbey’s Scientists’ Corner, beneath a stone inscribed: “Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking” — an English translation of the Latin words on the nearby grave of Newton, the 17th-century scientist who discovered the laws of gravity. The stone is also inscribed with one of Hawking’s equations describing the entropy of a black hole.

After the service, Hawking’s words, set to music by Greek composer Vangelis, were being beamed into space from a European Space Agency satellite dish in Spain. Lucy Hawking said the music would be aimed at “the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00,” more than 3,000 light years from Earth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/stephen-hawking-s-ashes-buried-westminster-abbey-n883756

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