Today a remembrance is being held for the belated physicist Stephen Hawking at Westminster Abbey in London – and following the service , his voice will be sent into quad .
Hawking ’s ash will be interred between the graves of Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton in the ground of the abbey . A thousand appendage of the public are attending the memorial service , chosen by lottery , along with the Hawking category and guests such as Benedict Cumberbatch , who played the physicist in the 2004 BBC dramaHawking .
" We are so grateful to Westminster Abbey for offering us the exclusive right of a Service of Thanksgiving for the over-the-top life-time of our father and for giving him such a distinguished last resting topographic point , " Hawking ’s children Lucy , Robert , and Tim said in astatement .
Hawking passed away inMarch this yearat the years of 76 , watch over a lengthy conflict with motor neurone disease that was look to wipe out him in his XX . He drop dead peacefully in his domicile , leave behind his three child .
agree toCNN , the melodic piece is about six - and - a - one-half minutes long , and contain a sober content about considering the grandness of looking after Earth . It will take about 35 minute to send the music into space , which will be released to the world at a later day of the month .
" This is a beautiful and emblematic gesture that create a link between our male parent ’s presence on this satellite , his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe of discourse in his mind , " Stephen Hawking ’s girl , Lucy Hawking , said in the argument .
The music will be beam towards the nearest known black hole , call 1A 0620 - 00 , located about 3,500 light - years from Earth in a binary system with an orange dwarf whiz . Hawking of course of study was famed for his theoretical workplace on black holes , include the proposal that some give out information in the form of Hawking radiation .
It ’s ill-defined incisively what will become of the beamed substance , although it ’s likely it will orb around the blackened muddle , eventually being destroyed by the very radiation hawk predicted – and that ’s middling poetic .
