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Professor Stephen Hawking poses for photographers upon arrival for the Interstellar Live show at the Royal Albert Hall in central London, Monday, 30 March, 2015.
Professor Stephen Hawking poses for photographers upon arrival for the Interstellar Live show at the Royal Albert Hall in central London, Monday, 30 March, 2015.
Tony Hicks, Pop culture writer for the Bay Area News Group is photographed for a Wordpress profile in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Thursday, July 28, 2016. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
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Dr Stephen Hawking has finally weighed in on Zayn Malik’s departure from One Direction.

It’s about time.

One of history’s greatest theoretical physicists and the focus of Oscar-winning film “The Theory of Everything” appeared via hologram last weekend at the Sydney Opera House. He took a question concerning the “cosmological effect” of Malik leaving the popular British boy band.

“Finally, a question about something important,” he said.

Well … duh.

“My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay attention to the study of theoretical physics because, one day, there may be proof of multiple universes,” Hawking said, according to Contactmusic.com. “It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another, different universe and, in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.”

OMG.

Hawking then went a bit further, saying “This girl may like to know that in another possible universe, she and Zayn are happily married.”

OMG double 🙂

Hawking also said he was OK with some deviations from the truth in “The Theory of Everything.”

“I won’t tell them how to make movies, if they don’t tell me how to solve the mysteries of the universe,” he said.

The physicist exited the event with a quote from “Star Trek”‘s Captain Kirk, saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” prompting the digital hologram to morph into a beam of light.

Tony Hicks writes celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/tonyhicks67