Now Stephen Hawking, the English cosmologist and black hole maven who died last week, and Sir Isaac Newton, the Englishman who founded modern physics, will rest together for eternity, or at least for its practical equivalent: the lifetime of the stones that make up Westminster Abbey in London. The Abbey announced Wednesday that Dr. Hawking would be given the ultimate tribute. His ashes will be interred in the Abbey in a ceremony “of thanksgiving” to be held later this year. Sir Isaac Newton was buried in the Abbey in 1727. Dr. Hawking often said that he wanted a formula describing what is called Hawking radiation — a fizz of particles and energy appearing to come from the surface of a black hole — engraved on his tombstone.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2018 19:07 UTC