Stephen Hawking taught us that there is no such thing as a preferential reference frame for time. Every thing that will ever, has ever or does ever exist does not cease. His chain of being, the particular arrangement of molecules will have always existed. He is beyond the light cone of our perceptions, but he will always be there and his words will always be traveling forever outward, spreading and attenuating through the cosmos until time itself stops.
Lightspeed, Dr. Hawking. From stardust you came, to starlight you return.
Lightspeed, Dr. Hawking. From stardust you came, to starlight you return.