Scientist Stephen Hawking has rejected the sky as “a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark.”
And he insisted that instead of advancing to the afterlife, the brains of people for “broken machines” when they die.
Renowned physicist Hawking, 69, admitted his views were partly influenced by his long battle with motor neuron disease that left him in a wheelchair.
He said yesterday: “I lived with the prospect of an early death over the past 49 years, I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die I have so many things I want to do, I think … The brain as a computer, which will end when it components.
“There is no heaven, not beyond the broken computers -. is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark”
Hawking, author of the 1988 international bestseller A Brief History of Time, was diagnosed with the disease at 21 years and speaks through a voice synthesizer.
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