A sequel to "The Biophysical Relationship Evolution", "The Biophysical Relationship Continuation" and "The Biophysical Relationship Development". Part 9, Hawking Lecture. Everything belongs to Chuck Lorre and friends.

####################################

The main auditorium at the Cavendish Laboratory was packed as Sheldon prepared to give the annual Stephen Hawking memorial lecture.

"It is a great privilege for me to be here today at the University of Cambridge today to give this lecture in memory of my old friend and colleague Professor Stephen Hawking. Professor Hawking was the greatest scientist that I have ever had the privilege to work with during my scientific career.

Before we start I would like to thank my wife Bernadette. She is Professor of microbiology at Caltech, there is a Caltech-Cambridge collaboration in biological sciences and thanks to this collaboration she was invited to spend 6 months here in Cambridge working in the Biochemistry department. I am very grateful to the Cambridge Physics department who were able to accommodate me during Bernadette's visit. It is very sad that Professor Hawking is no longer with us. It would have been so good to have been able to collaborate with him in person whilst during my time in Cambridge.

Now for my lecture 'Dark Matter, Superasymmetry and String Theory, are they connected?' This is in part on some of the work I have been able to do with people here in Cambridge during my visit..."

One hour later it was all over, after the lecture Sheldon went straight to his wife. Bernadette gave him a hug and then stood on a chair to kiss him.

Sheldon: "Thank you Bernadette, I needed that."

Bernadette: "A very impressive talk, I even understood some of it. All these years living with you has taught me a bit of Physics."

Sheldon: "I am glad it's all over, I hate giving big lectures like that. If it hadn't been for Professor Hawking then I would have declined the invitation."

Bernadette: "Are you hungry, I have made a reservation at our favourite Thai restaurant."

Sheldon: "What did I do to deserve you?"

Bernadette: "If I recall you helped me with my Ph.D thesis and it all started from there."

Sheldon: "So how has your work week been, I have been wrapped up in preparing for this lecture."

Bernadette: "Ellen Rashid passed her Ph.D viva examination today, she had been really nervous all week but she had no problems."

Sheldon: "Good news, she worked hard on her visit to Caltech last year."

Bernadette: "We have just submitted a paper on some of the work I have been doing here in Cambridge. This is my first paper for years where I have done a significant part of the laboratory work. It has been good to have been a real scientist for a few months here in Cambridge. Back to all the admin and paperwork in October :-("

Sheldon: "It's been great here in Cambridge. We should enjoy the place while we still can, what do you want to do this weekend..."