A young scientist named Stephen Hawking made a dramatic presentation to a group of elite physicists at Oxford University in England in 1974. When he finished, the session moderator blurted out, "Oh, this is rubbish."

Physicists attempt to prove the size, shape, and workings of the universe with mathematics. Everyone has heard of Einstein's theory of relativity, which attempts to prove that light traveling through a field of gravitation is slightly distorted. Einstein knew that there was another force somewhere in the universe that had to be identified before we could completely understand the wonderful arena of space in which we live. He spent the last 30 years of his life trying to combine his theory of relativity with this unknown force into a new theory, which he called the Unified Fie…