The universe in deed mourns the death of a renowned theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. Born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei, the enigma surprisingly died peacefully in his home on the 14th day of March, the birth date of his equally outstanding predecessor, Albert Einstein. While Einstein developed the theory of Relativity, the pillars of modern physics, Hawking took it to another level.
Einstein argued that space and time cannot exist separately but as one space-time continuum.Things are not the way we visualize them and that space-time is pliable like skin. Masses like the sun warp space-time and that the limiting speed - the highest possible speed - is the speed of light. This golden number, 300 000 000 m/s, is the highest speed nature can allow.
On the other hand Hawking postulated that while the fabric of the universe is malleable, some stars are so massive that they bend space so much such that not even light can escape the hole. This infinite gravity traps are called black holes.
