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Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole
An anonymous reader writes: Physicist Stephen Hawking claims to have figured out a way for information to leave a black hole. He presented his theory today at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Scientists have struggled with the black hole information paradox for years, and Hawking thinks this new theory could be a solution. He said, "I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but in its boundary, the event horizon." Put in layman's terms, "this jumbled return of information was like burning an encyclopedia: You wouldn't technically lose any information if you kept all of the ashes in one place, but you'd have a hard time looking up the capital of Minnesota." Information can leave the black hole via Hawking radiation, though it will be functionally useless. Hawking worked with Cambridge's Malcolm Perry and Harvard's Andrew Stromberg on this theory.
chuck norris doesn't escape from black holes.
they escape from HIM.
He doesn't look all too terribly excited about it.
Have gnu, will travel.
Put in layman's terms, "this jumbled return of information was like burning an encyclopedia ...
Millennials ask, "how would you burn Wikipedia?"
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole
You rough it up a little, shine a bright light in its face and ask it where it stashed the loot. You could also play good astrophysicist/bad astrophysicist.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.