Long live Jolly Sir Roger
May 3, 2023
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences appears to have waited diligently till Stephen Hawking strode out to higher planes of cyborgean existence — to finally begin giving out Nobel Prizes in theoretical cosmology, black hole physics and so on.
Honestly, I’m pretty much astonished that they took a risk before eyes of scientific establishment to honour his friend and co-author Penrose, who throughout his career deprived so many emperors from their stylish new mind-clouding clothes.
Long live Jolly Sir Roger, possibly the greatest polymathic Outside Observer whom the humankind sired in the Century of Progressing Mutually Exclusive Destructions.
