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Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes?

Posted by simoniker on from the most-upsetting dept.

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."

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  1. welcome to slashdot by talaphid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is your accordion, so goes the Far Side strip...

    but at least now you know what the PREVIEW button is for.

  2. Re:Which Bet? by cuzality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IIRC, the loser had to buy the winner a copy of Penthouse.

    This led me to Google "hot girls wheelchairs", which got me nothing. Apparently even teh intarweb has its limits...

  3. Re:Who is this Steven Hawking fellow? by Senjutsu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Duh. Joke. Duh.

  4. Re:Hawking for President!! by Alzheimers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have to admit, though, that the electronic voice box of his still speaks with more emotion then Kerry.

  5. Or... by TheHonestTruth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I am being serious. Anyone who tought in college would know how frustrating it might be sometimes.

    Especially those that "taught" English in college and have access to slashdot. ;-)

    -truth

    --

    I had a steady B+ in my AI class until I failed the Turing test...

  6. Re:Mod parent redundant by strictnein · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you don't get karma from Funny mods

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    Casual Games/Downloads
  7. Re:Integrity by a_n_d_e_r_s · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dont you know - the terrorist use spam to send secret messages to each other. Thats why there are s much of it. They are using the practical theory that says that it impossible to find a needle in an haystack or in this case the message in all the spam.

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    Just saying it like it are.
  8. Re:Mod parent redundant by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    an AC trolled:
    C'mon people, we know this joke isn't funny; I agree, Windows sucks, but this just isn't funny: he's obviously whoring for karma.
    If you check my posting history, you'd know that half the time I post seriously, the other half for fun. I don't need to whore for karma - had tons of it for years.

    I get mod points all the time (have some now, in fact) and I usually concentrate on modding up rather than downmodding.

    /. is a social phenomenom, not just information.

  9. scarlet & grey by happyfrogcow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Earlier in 2004, Samir Mathur of Ohio State University in Columbus and his colleagues showed that if a black hole is modelled according to string theory...

    Go Buckeyes! Not just a football program! Neener neener!

  10. Re:Winning a bet... by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hold on I'll ask him. He's out back mowing my lawn.

    His answer was "No hablo inglés", whatever that means.