{"id":714,"date":"2008-07-16T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=714"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:39:30","slug":"hawking-to-perimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Hawking to Perimeter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian press today is putting out the story that Stephen Hawking may be abandoning Cambridge to move permanently to the Perimeter Institute, where he would join recently appointed director Neil Turok, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=611\">Lenny Susskind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the stories it appears that Hawking plans to visit Perimeter next year for a month or so, and that he hasn&#8217;t actually made any decision about a permanent move.<\/p>\n<p>For more, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=657003\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.therecord.com\/News\/CanadaWorld\/article\/384003\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2008\/07\/15\/scihawking115.xml\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverychannel.ca\/reports\/rw\/9805\/World-famous-physicistauthor-Steven-Hawking-wants-to-work-in-Canada-colleagues.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sam Blackburn, an assistant of Hawking&#8217;s, Hawking is just mulling the idea over with no move imminent, but he is &#8220;obviously a man of few words so the first we would probably know of it is when he packs his bags.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian press today is putting out the story that Stephen Hawking may be abandoning Cambridge to move permanently to the Perimeter Institute, where he would join recently appointed director Neil Turok, as well as Lenny Susskind. From the stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}