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      Nah, the dude really was quite shitty on several personal accounts

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    Well hawking died before time travel was invented. Now time travelers probably visited hawking while he was on Epstien Island

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      Being able to time travel implies he could also jump forward in time (e.g. to check his posthumous reputation).

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        But why does Stephen Hawking not being able to time travel mean time travel doesn’t exist?

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        Yeah…a time traveller would be able to jump forward less backward in time to check that.

        But Stephen Hawking wasn’t a time traveller, he just wanted time travellers to visit him.

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          Well, all you need to do is travel at a significant fraction of the speed of light. That will let you fast-forward the rest of non-relativistic reality. Then it’s just a matter of slowing down again.

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    Was he implicated in nefarious shit?
    Afaik Epstein had a thing for physics and other physicists are in the files because he liked the subject.

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    Does anybody actually believe that Stephen Hawking was involved in the illegal activities?

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      I believe that he was probably a sexual person in some form and he probably had money so maybe he might have paid for sex. But I have no idea really.

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        Maybe in his earlier life. He was married more than once and had three children.

        His name does appear in the Epstein files, but he was never actually accused of anything related to Epstein. To say that Hawking was a pedophile is speculation at best.

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            Pretty much, yeah. Chomsky was friends with Epstein, but friendship doesn’t automatically equate to criminality. As far as i’m aware, there is currently no evidence against him.

            It might seem unfair, but that’s how the law works.

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        Another factor here is that Epstein was obsessed with physics and being friends with physicists.

        While Epstein was always a monster. He could hide it around certain people.

        But from everything I’ve read, the monster always comes out. And we all know what being Epstein’s friend eventually entails.

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          That’s pure speculation. Your argument is what is referred to as “guilt by association”. Your argument has no basis. It wouldn’t hold up in court.

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            Also does anyone actually have info about in what context Hawking is mentioned in the files? That makes all the difference here, I’d imagine

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              Yes. There was a scientific conference held on Epstein’s island in 2006. Hawking was one of the scientists who attended. There is no evidence that Hawking even knew what was going on regarding the sex trafficking.

              https://www.justice.gov/epstein

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            These people don’t care. I got downvoted to hell by saying the same thing. Apparently factual evidence isn’t the norm in here.

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    How would he even go about removing it. Its not like “the files” are a stack of random paper pages in a safe somewhere.

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      He could go back in time and give his caretaker a note to give to him a week before they met that said “And STAY AWAY from that Epstein… He’s a bad egg!”.

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          I think the point is he was attempting to reach out to time travelers… or skeptically making fun of the idea with the time travelers party that no one showed up for.

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            If you were a time traveller, would you want to go back in time to hang out with someone mentioned in the Epstein files?

            This all proves that time travellers are real, because they didn’t go to his party knowing about his Epstein links.

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        He could go back in time and give his caretaker a note to give to him a week before they met that said “And STAY AWAY from that Epstein… He’s a bad egg!”.

        Or hawking is a piece of shit who was full well aware of what was going on, partook and thus has expanded no effort to go back in time to stop himself from hanging out with child raping scumbags.

        I’m so bitterly disappointed with so many people. Especially Hawking.

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          There is no evidence that h Hawking actually participated in wrongdoing related to Epstein. Guilt by association has no evidential basis.

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    Doesn’t that just mean he never figured it out? Doesn’t mean it’s impossible for everyone forever.

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    Is it though? There’s the whole causality argument, where if time travel does get invented in the future, then you can only travel back to that moment