Lawrence Krauss organized “Confronting Gravity,” funded by Epstein’s foundation, with about twenty physicists including Stephen Hawking, David Gross, Frank Wilczek, Gerard ’t Hooft, Kip Thorne, Alan Guth and Jim Peebles. Hawking took a submarine ride and the group picnicked on Little St. James. Epstein would later list it among his top achievements. [1]
Guth and Peebles told NPR they barely saw Epstein. Other attendees and later reporting recalled young women around him; Krauss has said the women around Hawking were his nurses. That spring Palm Beach police were building their criminal case against him. Nothing in the record says any physicist at the conference knew. [1]
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