Like an otherworldly emperor, Stephen Hawking rolled his wheelchair onto the stage of the Great Hall of the People on Monday, bringing with him the royalty of science and making China, for this week at least, the center of the cosmos.
Slouching in profile, draped in black and moving no more than an eyelid to send his words to a mesmerized audience of 6,000, Hawking ruminated on the origin of the universe as the headliner of an international physics conference.
“We are close to answering an age-old question,” he concluded. “Why are we here? Where did we come from?”
But as weighty as his speech was, his mere presence was a powerful symbol of what China is and would like to be.
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