Profile Stephen Hawking He's spent most of his life on the final frontier His thought may be too far-flung for most of us to follow, but a new series will show again the power with which he persuades us to try, says William Langley From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 2, 2008| Author: | Copyright 2008 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams puts forward the theory that if anyone ever discovers why the Universe exists and what it is for, it will immediately be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. The record broadly confirms that the solving of any scientific mystery creates an equally annoying new one, but cosmologists plug on, and Professor Stephen Hawking, the foremost celebrity of the field, plugs harder than most.

When he gave his inaugural lecture as Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, 28 years ago, he hinted that the cracking of the great ...

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