Masters of the Universe
This could be the first time I've understood a film better than my wife. On Saturday night we watched the BBC docu-drama Hawking. This is the story of Stephen Hawking's time at Cambridge working on his PhD on gravitational singularities. The film starts with Penzias and Wilson being interviewed before their Nobel prize ceremony, talking, amongst other things, about the famous pigeon problem. At one point the interviewer asked, "so are you going to get the Nobel prize for finding something out by accident?" If you didn't know the story then this was all a bit bizarre but maybe made sense in the end. The moment of inspiration happened on a train station where Hawking explained to Penrose that if matter could contract into a singularity then going the other way in time, matter could expand out of a singularity. It's a good film whether you understand the physics or not, worth a watch.
I remember the first time I heard some of my friends talking about Hawking I thought they said Hawkwind. Well, with an album called "In Search of Space" and the track "Masters of the Universe" I thought it quite possible that they could have been involved in cosmological research.