Born on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo, and passed away on the 139th anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein is a cosmic bookend that could only belong to Stephen Hawking.
Does time bend, or is it woven? Will there be an eminent physicist who is already born, or yet to be born, who will turn out to be born on an x anniversary of Einstein's death, who will in turn pass away on an x anniversary of Stephen Hawking's birth? Time of course and theoretical work will of course tell.
I never read Hawking's A Brief History of Time, but I might now at least pick up a copy, which of course will now be readily available again, and take a stab at its contents. What can I lose? If I fail to comprehend what's inside, leaving the book out when company comes over will at least create an illusion of intelligence. Image can be everything.
It is somewhat hard for me to get a concept of what a black hole is other than it must exist in our home because my wife dropped an earring in the TV room and it has yet to be found. Will it escape the black hole, or will it remain forever hidden? Destroyed matter? Maybe it is emitting radiation, promoting growth of the plants in the window.
But with the persistence worthy of Dr. Hawking's life we are going to get an answer as to where it is, even if we have to empty the room and paint it again.
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