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In 1995, with their forthcoming 15th anniversary issue in mind, The Face magazine approached Stephen Hawking and asked him for a time travel formula. They soon received the following response by fax.
Transcript follows. Image very kindly supplied by The Face’s former editors, Richard Benson and Johnny Davis. Huge thanks!
Transcript
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Silver Street, Cambridge, England CB3 9EWFAX
From: Sue Masey, Personal Assistant to Professor S W Hawking
To: Johnny DavisNumber of pages: 1 (Including this one)
Date 6 April 1995
Thank you for your recent fax. I do not have any equations for time travel. If I had, I would win the National Lottery every week.
S W Hawking
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I can’t help but thinking how stupefyingly funny it would have been if Stephen Hawkings would have dated his fax 1994.