Originally published at: Stephen Hawking's mindbending blackboard now on display at London museum | Boing Boing
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I could not make heads or tails of it. Understandably.
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I understand the double czech your results joke… I think.
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At first I read:
cosmetologist Stephen Hawking’s office
and I knew that wasn’t right but I couldn’t quite come around to the correct text.
It was a whirlwind 3 seconds, let me tell you.
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I always very much enjoyed that he made television appearances in so many shows. Especially cartoons. Given the fact that he had what I would presume to be the world’s most easily faked voice, his actual presence in the cast was very cool.
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Hawking was clearly a Basquiat fan.
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Time to up the game on my own office blackboard (though I’m not sure the cleaning staff wouldn’t report me to HR if it looked like that one).
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This looks more like a D&D campaign than unravelling the mysteries of the universe.
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I mean, Hawking couldn’t stand and could barely hold the chalk let alone write with it(?) Whatever’s on the chalkboards, it’s been made by his visitors/collaborators in his department. Less “mindbending”, rather “doodles” [made by his friends].
Well, he could until his mid-20s or so.
But even though he probably never drew on this one it was still his blackboard and provided a glimpse into his personality and work environment:
The blackboard in the exhibit illustrates Hawking’s playful sense of humor and was used during a “Superspace and Supergravity” conference in 1980. Delegates covered it in equations, cartoons and jokes about one another. Hawking had the souvenir framed and hung in his office.
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