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Many folks woke up this morning to learn the tragic news: Stephen Hawking, the worldwide known theoretical physicist, scientist and mathematician passed away in his home at the age of 76. And with that tributes have been pouring in from every direction. One of those tributes? A nice little montage from the crew at This Morning. The only problem? This tribute was accompanied by Megan Trainor’s huge hit, “All About That Bass.”
It was quite the awkward moment. Check out the snippet below. And don’t feel too bad if you laugh.
“I got all the right junk in all the right places.” Jesus. What a blunder.
And Twitter couldn’t get enough:
I’m fucking crying this morning just said rip to Stephen hawking then started playing all about that bass by meghan trainor over the top of pics of him lmfaoo
— cinnamon girl (@CHLOC4INA) March 14, 2018
As if @thismorning Just accidentally payed tribute to Stephen hawking with ‘all about that bass’ playing ahahaha
— Phoebe (@Feebae_) March 14, 2018
Moment of silence for the person who made this mistake pic.twitter.com/1rjm5ACN48
— Chloe (@chloehuttonv) March 14, 2018
oh my god this morning just started playing meghan trainor over a stephen hawking tribute pic.twitter.com/26q0Q0hboD
— Alex Hambis (@alexhambis) March 14, 2018
Well Hawking was known to have a pretty great sense of humor, so I’m sure he would have had a good laugh over this — especially if he truly was all about that bass.
Hawking was of course Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, and became widely known after his hugely popular book “A Brief History of Time” hit the shelves in 1988.
May his work live on.
