Talking to Stephen Hawking on the Flipside and “Slices of Time”

From Wired Magazine — the Nebula where the black home exists. Note the dot at the center. Reportedly, the black hole of recent photos.

So the other day I was talking to Stephen Hawking…

And he said that he could access time like “floppy disks.”

Let’s break this down for a moment. I have been speaking to a number of people on the Flipside via Jennifer Shaffer, and in “Backstage Pass to the Flipside: Talking to the Afterlife” we had a conversation with Mr. Hawking just after he departed.

I asked him if he had seen a black hole since his departure and he said he had, that he had learned what it really was, but that it is more complex than he thought it was. In subsequent follow up conversations, he allowed that the word “portal” would apply to a black hole, but not in the way we think of the word, as in “window.”

Jennifer said that she could “see the location of the black hole” that it was not in the center of our universe (I asked) but that it was the larger one where “most of the matter is going through.”

(For fans of “Flipside: A Tourist’s Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife” I had an out of body experience of going through a black hole. I was so enchanted by it that I actually reached out to Hawking to describe it to him — but as of yet haven’t asked whether he ever got my email. But I digress.)