Everything is Everything

All the Universe fit not only in the concave palm of his hand but also in the wondrous neuronal weave of his brain.

The space-time binomial Einstein revealed in his general theory of relativity, exposed now as a symphony. There is no such thing as gravitational force —begging Newton’s pardon. Rather, space-time curvature is what compels the Earth to dance around the Sun.

Hawking reassessed this singular pair so as to create a symphony of harmonious musical notes: a theory of everything that would explain the origin and destination of the Universe: hence everything that happens is neither random nor divine. The powerful force of causality possesses a physical math of intrinsic beauty.

There are no loose ends, everything articulates with everything else. In the universe as in life everything is born, grows, and collapses in an infinite continuum of life and death, of suns and galaxies, of shooting stars and voracious black holes, of energy that is neither created nor destroyed, but merely returning to itself.

And Hawking, that wise, quiet, intense revealer of the geometric beauty of space and luminous pace of time was born, lived, and died to tell this tale.

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