Stephen Hawking presented a cover version of Galaxy Song group “Monty Python” – Hello!

Stephen Hawking is famous not only for its scientific discoveries and labor, but also an outstanding sense of humor. Yesterday, the famous theoretical physicist presented a cover of the famous British comedian group “Monty Python,” Galaxy Song and video on it. As in everyday life, to record the song Stephen used the speech synthesizer, allowing the lyrics purchased electronic sound.

The composition Galaxy Song was first performed in 1983 in the movie “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” and cavernous version of Stephen Hawking until yesterday could be heard only in last year’s reunion concerts. During the show, the scientist appeared on the screen to refute accusations of another British physicist Brian Cox in the unscientific nature of the Galaxy Song, after which the audience could hear her in the performance of Stephen.

In the clip on the cover of the scientist used footage taken behind the scenes last year the band’s concerts, and scenes with Stephen, who dispersed on his wheelchair and flies her to the sun into space.

Still from the video of Stephen Hawking on a cover version of “Monty Python”

> “Monty Python” – a popular British comic artist, known worldwide for its humorous show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” which was aired in the years 1969-1974. Influence of the group on the comedy genre compared to the influence of The Beatles on pop and rock music, but because six members of “Monty Python” are among the most influential comedians of all time.

Stephen Hawking – a famous theoretical physicist and popularizer of science, his main area of ​​research is cosmology and quantum gravity. His main achievement – the application of thermodynamics to describe black holes, the theory that black holes “evaporate” due to Hawking radiation, and the resolution of the paradox disappears into a black hole of information. Stephen Hawking is the founder of cosmology and one of the most famous and influential physicists of our time, which is actively engaged in the popularization of science.

In the early 1960s, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – a disease due to which scientists completely lost the ability to move without assistance. Severe pneumonia that befell Hawking in 1985, led him to a tracheotomy, after which he lost the ability to speak. Since then, the scientist uses to communicate speech synthesizer, which he first ran with the finger of his right hand, and when the finger also lost mobility, with the help of facial muscles cheeks.

This year, the Russian rolling out drama “The Universe Stephen Hawking’s “for the main role in which Eddie Redmayne was awarded the” Oscar “.

Text: Anastasia Fanysheva

Photo: Frames of the video