# Stephen Hawking becomes a virtual particle at 76

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-becomes-a-virtual-particle-at-76/810531 "2018-03-14T03:52:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-becomes-a-virtual-particle-at-76/810531/61 "2018-03-14T23:54:36Z")

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even though he far outlived the doctor’s predictions, still gone too soon. RIP, Stephen Hawking.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-becomes-a-virtual-particle-at-76/810531/62 "2018-03-15T00:04:05Z")

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> Married twice, with three children. I did NOT know that!

Rumor has it that he was quite the ladies’ man. When you’re perceived as the best in the world at something, you’re going to be able to find as many willing partners as you’d want.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-becomes-a-virtual-particle-at-76/810531/63 "2018-03-15T00:10:40Z")

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> [@mischievous](#):
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> If you can’t tell Hawking and Schrodinger apart, perhaps you know too much about their velocities and not enough about their vocations.
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> RIP, Steven Hawking. I like to think you’d be happy with the general public making (terrible) physics jokes.
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> (and yes, I know that’s Heisenberg.)

Oh, I know who’s who; though Hawking wasn’t very fast, he was a quantum physicist all the same.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawking-becomes-a-virtual-particle-at-76/810531/64 "2018-03-15T13:46:46Z")

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Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Andrew Lloyd Webber’s memoir _Unmasked_, but I wonder how a musical version of Hawkings’s life could be done. And would it succeed?

I highly recommend this book. BTW, I did not know his first daughter Imogen’s middle name was _Annie_. :eek: 😃

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