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[–] BobDole4Prez@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Maybe no one showed up to his time travel party cuz everyone knew he was a creep.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 12 hours ago

as someone else said: now his time travel experiment is worthless, cause there’s a very good reason no one from the future wanted to go party with him

[–] Azrael@reddthat.com 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does anybody actually believe that Stephen Hawking was involved in the illegal activities?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I believe that he was probably a sexual person in some form and he probably had money so maybe he might have paid for sex. But I have no idea really.

[–] Azrael@reddthat.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Maybe in his earlier life. He was married more than once and had three children.

His name does appear in the Epstein files, but he was never actually accused of anything related to Epstein. To say that Hawking was a pedophile is speculation at best.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Another factor here is that Epstein was obsessed with physics and being friends with physicists.

While Epstein was always a monster. He could hide it around certain people.

But from everything I've read, the monster always comes out. And we all know what being Epstein's friend eventually entails.

[–] Azrael@reddthat.com 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's pure speculation. Your argument what is referred to as "guilt by association". Your argument has no basis. It wouldn't hold up in court.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

These people don't care. I got downvoted to hell by saying the same thing. Apparently faktual evidence isn't the norm in here.

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Was he implicated in nefarious shit?
Afaik Epstein had a thing for physics and other physicists are in the files because he liked the subject.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Lawrence Krauss is one who is definitely not innocent based on his disgusting messages.

[–] raccoon@lemmy.ml 60 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He was dead when we found out, how the fuck would he come back in time?

[–] Shrubbery@piefed.social 47 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Being able to time travel implies he could also jump forward in time (e.g. to check his posthumous reputation).

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 9 points 8 hours ago

Going forward is sadly the only way we can time travel. I explained this to Stephen in a couple weeks.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But why does Stephen Hawking not being able to time travel mean time travel doesn't exist?

[–] corvi@piefed.social 28 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Probably a reference to his “time travelers party”, a tongue-in-cheek way he used to suggest backwards time travel is impossible

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe no one came to his party because they knew he was on the list

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

Or maybe the time travelers went back and faked his name onto the list as a prank.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ah right, so they would have given him the technology to do so i guess is what it's implying

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Why would they do that, they know he's on the list.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Is it though? There's the whole causality argument, where if time travel does get invented in the future, then you can only travel back to that moment

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

How would you know you've invented time travel then?

You're basically describing a real-time machine.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

he did, but that is now a seperate timeline that we are not living in

[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

What if time travelers didn't want to travel back bc he was in the files?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Maybe that's why the time travellers didn't show? I know I wouldn't knowing what I know now.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 33 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How would he even go about removing it. Its not like "the files" are a stack of random paper pages in a safe somewhere.

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 32 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

He could go back in time and give his caretaker a note to give to him a week before they met that said "And STAY AWAY from that Epstein... He's a bad egg!".

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

But he’s dead not a time traveler.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are you saying Maiq is a Liar?

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

This one might be?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

Which theory explains why he has not accomplished the above.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think the point is he was attempting to reach out to time travelers... or skeptically making fun of the idea with the time travelers party that no one showed up for.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

If you were a time traveller, would you want to go back in time to hang out with someone mentioned in the Epstein files?

This all proves that time travellers are real, because they didn't go to his party knowing about his Epstein links.

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

He could go back in time and give his caretaker a note to give to him a week before they met that said "And STAY AWAY from that Epstein... He's a bad egg!".

Or hawking is a piece of shit who was full well aware of what was going on, partook and thus has expanded no effort to go back in time to stop himself from hanging out with child raping scumbags.

I'm so bitterly disappointed with so many people. Especially Hawking.

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 15 points 13 hours ago

Doesn’t that just mean he never figured it out? Doesn’t mean it’s impossible for everyone forever.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Sphinx has zero logic to their words

[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Irony: he authored those very papers, so his name is all over them

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago

Stymied by being dead.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

That is hard truth.