14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, Facebook just got a lot richer. I’m not talking about the company itself, but about the community that holds over 1.3 billion people who visit the site on a monthly basis. Now, one of the people who can be found on the biggest social network is none other than Stephen Hawking.
In the few days elapsed since the theoretical physicist and cosmologist managed to attract over 1.6 million people who liked his page. The numbers are rising rapidly so it’s quite possible to see even bigger ones in the next few days as word spread about his presence on Facebook.
While it seems like Stephen Hawking first made his way on Facebook back on October 7, he only set up a profile page a couple of days later. His first post, however, came on October 24.
“I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit. Our connections to one another have grown infinitely and now that I have the chance, I’m eager to share this journey with you. Be curious, I know I will forever be. Welcome, and thank you for visiting my Facebook Page,” he wrote.
Posts from Hawking himself will be marked accordingly
While the page is maintained by Professor Hawking’s team, he will also make personal notes on the page, and they’re all signed with “SH” in the end, so you’ll know which have been created by the man himself and which come from his team.
He also added a video of himself going through the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Even though the hype around the challenge has died out in the past few months, Hawking is urging people to donate. He explains that while it wasn’t safe for him to take the challenge, his three children “took the plunge” for him.
His most recent post regards Starmus, the astronomy related festival that’s held every two years in Tenerife and which attracts some of the most prominent people in the fields of astronomy, space exploration and biological science.
Hawking explained that he was interested in the talks by the astronauts and why the Soviet Union didn’t beat Neil Armstrong to the Moon. He even joked that people think he’s an alien himself, due to his robot voice.
In recent months, Hawking has made it pretty clear that he believes there is no God, which, of course, caused quite a bit of stir.