This morning on 3.14, we woke with the news that Stephen Hawking, world-renowned visionary physicist, has passed at the age of 76. Hawking was born on the auspicious date, January 8th, the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. And he passes today on the anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birth. 3.14 Then, Einstein came along in 1905 and determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent o