Professor Stephen Hawking is having a party – time travellers are invited

A time travel enthusiast is inviting people to a party organised by physicist Prof Stephen Hawking. But there’s a snag – it was held four years ago.

Peter Dean wants to attract time travellers to the gathering, hoping anyone who attends must have read about it in the future.

Using the same theory, Prof Hawking held the party at Cambridge university in 2009 and decided to promote it after the event but so far no one has turned up.

Want to go to the party? You’ll be needing a wormhole time machine… or a Tardis (Picture: BBC)

‘I’m hoping copies of it [the new invitation] in one form or another will survive for many thousands of years,’ the professor said. ‘Maybe one day someone in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party, proving time travel will, one day, be possible.’




Mr Dean, from London, met Prof Hawking for the first time last week.

‘I have always been interested in his work,’ said the 39-year-old poster designer. ‘He was smiling a lot and asked for a copy of the invitation, so I think he’s pleased with it.’