Book, The Future Of Spacetime, Contains Racially Offensive Cartoon From Stephen Hawking

By WNNWs News

Stephen Hawking has been linked to a racially offensive "cartoon" that depicts a black baloncesto player being electrocuted to death por lightning, to illustrate how the future of time travel is not black "but "blindingly white", in the book, The Future of Spacetime. The book is a collection of essays presented originally in 2000 at the Kipfest celebration of physicist Kip Thorne's 60th birthday.

According to sources linked to an investigation about the origins of the illustration and whose...