stackyFACTSTesting the boundaries of theoretical physics can be surprisingly depressing. Hawking set up an extravagant party with champagne and balloons, but only sent out the invitations the day after it ended, sitting alone in a room just to definitively prove that backwards time travel wasn't possible.
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