May 1999 Edition

Hawking Draws Packed House to Atlanta Civic Center

While meeting with world renowned physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, science magician Bob Friedhoffer demonstrated some fascinating card tricks.  He caused one card to "visibly" melt through another , and a card packet to vanish from his hands, only to reappear moments later in his mouth.  Friedhoffer related this impressive presentation of sleight of hand to: quantum theory, time travel and cosmology.

The performance elicited a smile of delight from Hawking who might be the world's most famous living physicist, along with the comment,

"That's why I'm not an experimental physicist.

You can never believe the evidence!"

Friedhoffer Meets With World Renowned Physicist - Stephen Hawking 
  Sample Trick   |  Related Sites