In his lifetime, Stephen Hawking worked tirelessly to uncover and resolve cosmic mysteries. However, when he passed away in 2018, he left behind an unsolved mystery that has defied all attempts to explain it to this day. The surface of the board is entirely covered with symbols, phrases, equations and other types of annotations of every description. It was in 1980, during a scientific symposium on superspace and supergravity, that the brilliant British physicist filled up the chalkboard, which he afterwards preserved intact in his Cambridge office for more than thirty-five years. No one knows what the dozens of scribbles on the page mean, if they have any meaning at all at this time.

Are there hints of a theory that hasn't been published? Is it just a simple collection of concepts? annotations that are unrelated to one another and have nothing to do with one another? or perhaps a piece of art, although one that is unsettling to witness? Nobody is aware of it.
In fact, according to'The Guardian ', the board in question, along with a whole range of other articles and materials from Hawking's office, has now become the centerpiece of an exhibition at the Science Museum in London, which is currently on display. In addition, now that the entire globe has access to it, the organizers are hoping that someone, possibly one of the attendees in that scientific conference, would be able to shed some light on the situation.

Which is more important: science or fun?
It is possible that Hawking and his colleagues used the blackboard to distract themselves from their work on the so-called cosmological 'theory of everything,' a set of equations that could combine relativity and quantum mechanics, in 1980. They filled it with an unintelligible scrawl of half-written equations, puzzling puns, drawings, and doodles with no apparent meaning, perhaps to keep themselves entertained. Physicists and friends of Hawking are invited to the museum, which says it will be glad to host them in the hope that one of them may be able to decode at least some of the strange doodling on the wall.

What exactly does the phrase'stupor symmetry' or 'let's look at the anomalies' mean, for example? Which of these is the large, shaggy-bearded Martian depicted in the middle of the blackboard? What is the significance of the squid's nose dangling behind a brick wall? What is hiding within the 'Exxon supergravity' container that has the label "Exxon" on it? As a result, it is hoped that some solutions will be found by the world's greatest minds in mathematics and physics.

The show, which will be on display until June 12, will also feature a number of other intriguing items from the physicist's office. They include a customised jacket, an appreciation present from the makers of The Simpsons in recognition of his numerous appearances on the cartoon series, a copy of Hawking's 1966 PhD thesis on the expansion of the Universe, a glass apple and of course his inseparable wheelchair.