Stephen Hawking and The Theory of Everything

Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes its author Stephen Hawking concedes that the ultimate theory hed believed to be imminent which would conclusively explain the origins of life the universe and everything remains frustratingly elusive Yet despite his failing health and the seeming impossibility of the task Hawking is still devoted to his work an extraordinary drive thats captured here in fleeting interview snippets and footage of the scientist sharing a microwave dinner with some fawning PhD students Though the popscience tutorials that dapple the first of this twopart biography are winningly perky Hawking alas remains as tricky to fathom as his boggling quantum whatnots