cosmology

My wife shot me this. I haven't listened to the Tapestry episode yet, but just the transcript in the article raises some good questions for discussion. Given how vast our universe is in both space and time, and how tiny we seem to be in that vastness, how do we respond? Some are just overwhelmed...

It had to happen sooner or later. He's been beating the odds for decades just by being alive. Brilliant man who was nonetheless able to communicate that brilliance to the public. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, dead at 76