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Hawking Gracefully, Formally Loses Black Hole Bet

Posted by timothy on from the fails-to-give-wheelchair-ride dept.

Liora writes "Today at the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, Cambridge University professor Stephen Hawking said in his talk titled The Information Paradox for Black Holes that he was wrong about the formation of an event horizon in a black hole, and that matter is not destroyed in a way defying subatomic theory, as he had previously believed. According to the talk's short, "the way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon." A New York Times story and a Wired story are available, both apparently based on Reuters information." (This is the formal announcement promised last week.)

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  1. Cricket vs Baseball by sebi · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    [...] and gave him a baseball book as a prize.

    "I am now ready to concede the bet," said Hawking, 62. "I offered him an encyclopedia of cricket, but John wouldn't be persuaded of (its) superiority."

    Cricket is superior? I guess that is an easy claim to make if you are a certified genius. I prefer watching sports I can actually understand, thank you very much.

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    Hank! White!
  2. Re:He Better Pay.... by neilcSD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Piss-poor attempt at humor. Someone should break YOUR kneecaps for that statement.

  3. Re:More info.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wired says: The best-selling author of "A Brief History of Time"

    I didn't know hawking sold so well ;-)

    Man, I hurt for you just reading what you just posted.

    Let me guess, and you don't know Beethoven because you're not so keen on painting? How does it feel to look ignorant, and on Slashdot on top of that?

  4. Hawking Believes in Time Travel by Louis+Savain · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hawking is a con artist who believes in time travel. There are neither black holes not wormholes. It's all a con game. None of the voodoo physics stuff that Hawking has been working on is of any consequence or value.

  5. Re:obNoRegLink by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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  6. "Gracefully"?? by weiyuent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who the hell edited the hed? Get this straight: "gracefully" losing would involve Hawking doing pirouettes and somersaults in his electric wheelchair whilst wearing a pink tutu. I believe the word we're looking for is "graciously"!

    I'm usually not a language-nazi but, sorry, in this case the conflation projects an unforgivably ridiculous image!

  7. Re:BBC Article by Louis+Savain · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    hmm, let's see. World-respected physicist vs Slashdot poster...hmm...

    With gullible worshippers like you around, it makes sense Hawking can get away with the sort of worthless crap he's been getting away with.

  8. Re:Synopsis explained by timitch_1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sound like a nice way to do encryption.
    A,B share the key to the blackhole,
    A throw some dumbass in the black hole(Like Bush, Laden ... no shortage of those)
    B look at the fluctuation and figure out what was throw in.
    Let C try to crack that out.