Stephen Hawking Appeared Via Hologram To Answer Questions About One Direction At The Opera House Last Night

Theoretical physicist and author Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most respected and recognisable popular scientists, gave a talk at the Sydney Opera House last night. Joined by his daughter Lucy and fellow physicist Paul Davies, Hawking appeared at the Opera House over Saturday and Sunday night discussing his early life, his struggle with motor neurone disease, his studies of black holes and the origins of the universe, and the importance of science in an era of uncertainty and challenge.

Did I mention he was there in hologram form, via Cambridge? Because that’s important. Stephen Hawking gave a talk as a freaking hologram, because that is how Stephen Hawking do.

Towards the end of the evening Dr Hawking took a few pre-selected questions from the audience. One was a fairly technical question about the Large Hadron Collider and the possibility of discovering new forms of matter, but the final question of the night got a pretty excellent reception, seeing as it pertained to the “cosmological significance” of Zayn leaving One Direction.

The only other audience question asked whether the extremely delicate and unlikely circumstances required to create and sustain life on Earth might not be evidence of a higher power or God, to which Hawking replied — and I swear this is true — “No. What was God doing before he created the universe? Was he building Hell for people who ask those kinds of questions?”

Let it be known: Stephen Hawking gives zero fucks. None.

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Feature image credit: Prudence Upton.