Antarctica greatest memory for Stephen Hawking

Posted: Nov 21, 2011 05:47 pm EST

(Tina Sjogren) Many polar skiers will tell you that no place on earth feels so much as landing on another planet as does the touch down on Antarctica:



The wheels screech on contact with the ice, the big military plane trembles. When the rugged door opens there's a piercing light, and a frightening cold. Outside, an unchanging wind relentlessly grinds down the frozen, featureless landscape.



When asked by a TimeMagazine reader what is his favorite memomy, Stephen Hawking answered his trip to Antarctica in 1997. Hawking was 'assisted' - his wheel chair didn't have snow chains - so fellow physicists drove him around on a snowmobile, the cosmologist said.



In relation to his new book, The Grand Design Time sent 10 readers' questions to Stephen Hawking. Answering another one, Hawking also said there's nothing before the Big Bang, "just as there's is nothing south of the South Pole."





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