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Famous Hawking Black Hole Bet Resolved?
Mick Ohrberg writes "In 1997 the three cosmologists Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne and John Preskill made a famous bet as to whether information that enters a black hole ceases to exist -- that is, whether the interior of a black hole is changed at all by the characteristics of particles that enter it. It now looks like Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne may owe John Preskill a set of encyclopedias of his choice, since physicists at Ohio State University 'have derived an extensive set of equations that strongly suggest that the information continues to exist -- bound up in a giant tangle of strings that fills a black hole from its core to its surface.'"
In Soviet Russia, hole HAWKINGS YOU!!!
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or does physics seem a bit weird? I mean, there's stuff that physicisists say, which makes sense, but it just sounds so illogical (like they're so determined to make something make sense, they blindly look for something that'll fit the problem, even if it's obvious that it's probably not right). Just my $0.01
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
is this like an infinite number of monkeys with those typewriters? And since time passes so strangly there, why the heck haven't we detected x-rays sending Shakespear?
With a vector cannon! That's what you do to farked space.
Ok it's offtopic, but as a former attendee of the mentioned university, I must note that it is "The Ohio State University", not just (implied any) "Ohio State University". And for God's sake will someone please tell the local PBS announcer that the station's initials (WOSU) are not pronounced double-you-oh-ess-shoe.
Once again, our famous Thug-In-Chief has ignored international law and has, as previous thugs have done, executed a coup d'etat in Haiti.
So much for "free nations don't attack other nations" (one of many Bushisms).
Very truly yours,
K. Trout
that's where the heechee are. duh!
stored on computers from birth to the grave
When I looked at the picture, the building in the background reminded me immediately of those on the University of Colorado (Boulder) campus.
Why do you put quotes around the field names?
What is matter? Never mind.
What is the soul? No matter.
... smells like catfood!
Thanks for the crap moderation, cowards.
I posed a very serious question for very serious discussion, and only Fantastic had the guts to reply in a serious manner.
We've only recently have begun to discuss human travel to Mars, the next planet in our solar system. I question our ability to harness this discovery to better humankind in the next 5 centuries, much less tomorrow. Can you give me one deep space discovery that affects our daily life? The only one I can think of would be x-rays, over 100 years ago.