Still, what Hawking did was to take a huge step toward a unified theory of physics — a theory of everything, as the recent movie based on his life is titled. We still aren’t totally to that point, but Hawking started building the bridge. And he continued to work on that bridge up until he died. “He gave us problems to work on and directions to go with them... If we solve those problems, we’ll have a better understanding of which fundamental laws truly govern reality,”
