Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura
In 2013, a press in London printed a limited run of invitations for a party that had already happened. In 2009, the physicist Stephen Hawking had thrown a party, and no one showed up.
There were balloons. There was champagne.
There was a giant banner, which read “Welcome, Time Travellers.”Hawking, who died earlier this year, was conducting a cheeky experiment about time travel. A time traveler, in theory, at least, could attend a party even if the invitation was issued many years hence. If any time travelers did see Hawking’s invitation, though, none of them took up the offer.
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