{"id":141075,"date":"2018-06-14T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/stephen-hawkings-words-will-be-beamed-into-space\/"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:59:01","slug":"stephen-hawkings-words-will-be-beamed-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/stephen-hawkings-words-will-be-beamed-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking’s words will be beamed into space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Copies of the CD of the composition will be given to all guests at the thanksgiving service <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The words of renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking will be beamed into space as a "message of peace and hope", his family has said.<\/p>\n

His words have been set to an original score by composer Vangelis, famous for his Chariots of Fire film theme.<\/p>\n

The music will be beamed towards the nearest black hole following a service of thanksgiving for Professor Hawking's life at Westminster Abbey on Friday.<\/p>\n

He died in March, aged 76, after a long battle with motor neurone disease.<\/p>\n

The satellite broadcast will take place after the service, which will feature readings and addresses from people including Benedict Cumberbatch, who played the physicist in a BBC drama, and astronaut Tim Peake.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Getty Images
Image caption Professor Hawking's life story was made into a film starring Eddie Redmayne <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The music chosen to accompany her father's words is a "beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our father's presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind", the professor's daughter Lucy said.<\/p>\n

She added: "The broadcast will be beamed towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lives in a binary system with a fairly ordinary orange dwarf star.<\/p>\n

"It is a message of peace and hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony on this planet."<\/p>\n

A CD of the composition - a personal tribute to the professor by Vangelis, the Greek composer of electronic, progressive, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music - will be given to all guests at the Westminster Abbey service.<\/p>\n

Family and friends are set to attend as well as up to 1,000 members of the public who applied for seats in a ballot.<\/p>\n

Prof Hawking died in Cambridge on 14 March and thousands lined the streets of the city for his funeral later that month.<\/p>\n

During the thanksgiving service his ashes will be interred between Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n

Image caption The physicist was a fellow at Gonville & Caius College at Cambridge University for more than 50 years <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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