>>13785120in 1988, nobody had ever heard of the guy.
in 1989 the media announced to the world that sad science boy was a super brainiac fated to die young because of his rare medical condition, they said he had a year left to live and that he had a new book out that everyone should buy immediately unless they wanted to appear unsophisticated and cruel.
1990 Stephen Hawking sadly died young of because of his rare medical condition, but after selling millions of copies of his book - all of which were read and comprehended rather than left on a coffee table to give a good impression to visitors - humanity became enlightened about science, especially big bang physics and this largely explains humanity's tremendous and valuable advancements in the fields of big bang physics in the subsequent decades.