{"id":33293,"date":"2005-11-17T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/11\/17\/i-didnt-see-stephen-hawking-in-seattle-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:00:12","slug":"i-didnt-see-stephen-hawking-in-seattle-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051117-12\/?p=33293","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t see Stephen Hawking in Seattle yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the Stephen Hawking lecture in Seattle yesterday, but then again, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/artsentertainment\/2002627474_webhawking16.html\"> nobody did<\/a>. I did see him when he came to town back in 1993 and again in 1996. I think it was during the 1996 appearance, after his presentation on  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imaginary_time\"> imaginary time<\/a> was complete and the floor opened to questions, the first person to the microphone asked, &#8220;Hello, Dr.&nbsp;Hawking, my name is ABC, and I&#8217;m an oneironaut. That means that I travel through space by means of dreams. I was wondering if your imaginary time has any connection to my ability to travel in this manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The sound of a thousand people rolling their eyes filled the room. &#8220;We have in our presence what many people consider to be the smartest living human being, we have time to ask him three questions, and one of them is this one!?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> We waited patiently for Dr.&nbsp;Hawking&#8217;s response, which was basically, &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the Stephen Hawking lecture in Seattle yesterday, but then again, nobody did. I did see him when he came to town back in 1993 and again in 1996. I think it was during the 1996 appearance, after his presentation on imaginary time was complete and the floor opened to questions, the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-33293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the Stephen Hawking lecture in Seattle yesterday, but then again, nobody did. I did see him when he came to town back in 1993 and again in 1996. I think it was during the 1996 appearance, after his presentation on imaginary time was complete and the floor opened to questions, the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}