As you know from my previous post, I am a big fan of, and am in awe of, Stephen Hawking. He correctly predicted the expansion rate of the post big bang universe. It was Professor Hawking who came up with the idea that black holes slowly disappeared as they actually emitted radiation as opposed to continuously and infinitely absorbing energy and matter. Heck, the guy actually came up with his own explanation for gravity when he postulated his quantum theory. Forget about coming up with answers, he can grasp questions that are outside the realm of normal human thought. So when he was asked on his 70th birthday if there was one aspect of the universe that still baffled him, it perhaps should not have been a surprise that he answered in the affirmative. What may have been a surprise was the subject of his confoundment. "Women," he said, "were a complete mystery." He went on to admit he spent the majority of the day, every day, thinking about them. ME TOO!!!! Guess I oughta do humanity a favor and turn my mind toward unravelling string theory . . .
