3yo: cheese?
Me: ok *hands her bowl of shredded cheese*
3yo: *eating cheese* I love cheese, mmmm. Cheese is good.
Me: want to try this mac and cheese I made? It's full of cheese
3yo: No! No way! Yuck!
Me: But, it's cheese...
3yo: No. *continues to eat shredded cheese*
Me: ...
His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018.