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No offence, but I’m going out on a limb here to say you can’t.

I saw that last Wordle score where you used all six chances. Pitiful.

Stephen Hawking passed away in 2018 at the age of 76, leaving behind a body of work to ponder over for many generations to come.

In the summer of 1980, a number of famous minds attended a Superspace and Supergravity conference organised by Hawking, decorating a blackboard in the process.

That blackboard (pictured above), along with other “scribbles, in-jokes, drawings and equations” from Hawking’s office, is now on show at London’s Science Museum.

Here’s The Telegraph with more on how curators are desperate to decipher what it all means:

Juan-Andres Leon, the curator of the Stephen Hawking’s office exhibit, is hoping that scientists who contributed will get in touch to help him decode the writings.

“Now that it’s in the museum, we hope some of the scientists who wrote on it will swing by and help us understand what it means,” he said.

Image: Sarah Lee

“There are lots of in-jokes about scientists at the time, and doodlings, so it would be great to work out who had played a part in it.”

Lucy Hawking, Stephen’s daughter, said her father’s PA had seen the blackboard covered post-conference and taken it to the basement. It was then sprayed with varnish in order to preserve the scribbles.

Among the 16 items going on display are Hawking’s motorised wheelchair, and an invitation he sent to potential time travellers for a party to take place on June 28, 2009.

He sent it out well after that date and said this proved that time travel was not possible.

If you’ve ever wondered how Hawkin spoke you’re in luck, because his spectacles are included in the exhibition:

The glasses were primarily for communication, and held a sensor arm which detected small movements made with his cheek which connected with voice software.

Prof Hawking who had a rare, early-onset, slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was able to tense a muscle to send a signal from the glasses to an attached computer.

There’s also a personalised jacket given to Hawkins by the creators of The Simpsons for his many appearances on the show, and a steel case made to hold Hawking’s voice synthesiser.

The Stephen Hawking at Work display, which opened to the public yesterday, is free and will run until June 12.

[source:telegraph]