Ahh so apparently what it means is that he's hawking (ha-HAAA--no, but really) a new book.

Got me again Hawking, you devil! Gar!

This topic is extremely relevant to my interests...

I'm gonna get caught up and then maybe pretend that I know/understand things.

I'm extremely unqualified, but ridiculously fascinated by this type of stuff.

Yeah! It's fun! :D

The beginning of this video (and I'm not just embedding this because I'm listed in the credits at the end :D)

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made me realize that the silliness I was spouting near the beginning of this thread about everything being little vibrations is more or less what "string theory" is; only I don't like the sound of some other things about it, like (this is at about 1:30 in the video) there being "closed loops" of these vibrations that "contain gravity."