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Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes?
st1d writes "Looks like Steven Hawking might have to pay up on an old bet regarding black holes - seems his idea about them destroying information wasn't quite living up to his expectations: 'The about-turn might cost Hawking, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, an encyclopaedia because of a bet he made in 1997. More importantly, it might solve one of the long-standing puzzles in modern physics.' He's due to make a formal announcement July 21."
I love how these astrophysicists actually believe that they can prove things about stuff they have never even seen or measured. You can't lose a bet based on a THEORY. And it's all just theory. The truth is that we have absolutely no idea about black holes. For all we know there is a Tootsie Roll at the center of every black hole.
Of course, he did bet against the theory he wanted to prove. This makes him very similar to Kerry in my mind, as Kerry seems to want to be on both sides of every issue. Bush may be an idiot, but that doesn't explain why he's PotUS and all these people that are soooooo much smarter than him work at starbucks or the mall. I mean, I'm a Libertarian and I support Michael Badnarik for President, but I just don't think Bush can be dumber than most of the people who think he is and still be PotUS. that's just my opinion, though. Smart or dumb, I'll not be voting for him or that wishy-washy tree stump Kerry.
http://xkcd.com/386/
Of course not. Black Holes run Linux. Why else would they run forever and still suck?
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Posted AC to protect my fiancé (a cosmology PhD student), the source of most of my info on Hawking...
:o)
Wow, I didn't know they offered doctorates in makeup and hair care!
It drives me nuts when people shorten "mathematics" to "math".
I don't understand why the "s" is missing in American English and it irritates me every time I hear the word.
There is a subtle difference between the singular "mathematic" and the plural "mathematics". Yes, it is a plural - look up mathematic on dictionary.com as well as mathematics and you may see the difference.
If in math lesson you only learnt arithmetic then the term would be fine, but I learnt many other mathematical sciences such as geometry and calculus too in my maths lessons.
To me "maths" is logically and rationally the more correct term.
That and it's the term I grew up with in England...
"it is difficult for me to cross the Atlantic ocean to get a proper beer"
They don't sell Bud Lite in England?