Rocker and Physicist Team Up to Create Super-String Guitar

The typically stolid world of physics and cosmological research was shaken up yesterday when Stephen Hawking announced that he would be teaming up with Rolling Stones axeman Keith Richards to develop a super-string guitar.

`Super-strings are, like, totally radical`, said Hawking in a transcript released yesterday afternoon. `Keith`ll be able to blow people`s hair back all the way in the cheap seats if he jams on this new super-string guitar.`

Richards, who also attended the press conference where Hawking announced the collaboration, concurred, adding:

`I`ve always been looking for a way to bring classical and quantum physics closer together in my music, and now Dr. Hawking has show me how. The only drawback is that strings, even super ones, are entirely too small to see, much less play. So, for now, I`m rocking out in my mind. The other day I played a seven-hour solo for six hundred trillion people at Wembley Stadium, and raked in eleventy gajillion pounds in one night. It`s all because of super-strings. Thanks, Dr. Hawking.`