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Listen To Hawking's Second Reith Lecture On Black Holes, Illustrated (bbc.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on from the he-calls-it-a-hawking-hole dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has now put the second of Stephen Hawking's Reith Lectures up on their web site, with accompanying illustrations. It's not 'All you ever wanted to know about Black Holes', but it's an easy introduction to some of the latest thinking on them.

17 comments

  1. The Spaceballs version of a blackhole... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0

    "Suck! Suck! Suck!"

  2. It's not a video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It's a picture with "You need to install Flash Player to play this content." over top of it.

    1. Re: It's not a video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Use Chrome, and hope that Google don't think that you are obsessed with "black holes " and serve you up ad's for websites that specialize in disrobed ladies of color.

    2. Re:It's not a video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Okay, so it was illustrated, but what did it sound like?

    3. Re:It's not a video by justthinkit · · Score: 2

      This a transcript (and MP3 audio) here

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  3. Flash? No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    This story is a waste of everyone's time. Fuck flash

    1. Re:Flash? No thanks by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 2

      http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/med...

  4. How do you listen to illustrations, exactly? by mark-t · · Score: 1

    I mean, if all one is doing is "listening", which is all the headline directs one to do, what the fuck do any illustrations have to do with it?

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  5. No fair! I saw it first! by sims+2 · · Score: 1

    Who is The Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?

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    1. Re:No fair! I saw it first! by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      Paul Rudd, who beat Stephen Hawking at Quantum Chess!, That's who.

      After all, they were fighting over who would give the keynote to One Entangled Evening.

  6. Its Better than his Third Reith Lecture by wisnoskij · · Score: 2

    There's a Nazi joke in here somewhere.

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    1. Re:Its Better than his Third Reith Lecture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I did Nazi that coming.

  7. Dated info. by Rei · · Score: 1, Informative

    The lecture didn't cover anything newer than Hawking Radiation. Where's the discussion over the Firewall Paradox?

    Anyway, my preferred hypothesis: singularities don't exist, crossable event horizons don't exist, there is no disjoint region of spacetime beyond them, there is no unusual quantum behavior, localized inflation maintains a continuous spacetime metric at black holes by deforming infalling partial motions to a tangential path, matter/energy that falls into a black hole is as thoroughly fried and scrambled as they would be falling into such an extreme environment even if spacetime deformation weren't an issue, but the result is nearly frozen in time, released as the black hole explodes in an inflationary blast - and the Big Bang was a colossal such event.

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  8. Actual Link To Lecture Pages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Here is a link to the BBC's Reith Lecture Series. On that page, there are links to lectures from previous years. I highly recommend the thoughtful and moving lectures on health care given in 2014 by surgeon and writer Dr Atul Gawande of Harvard University.

  9. The biggest known black hole in the universe by RickNolegalname · · Score: 0

    Is the govenment!!! Google "Legal Name Fraud" to learn why... Good Day! :-)

  10. Watch it like a sane person by nowsharing · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  11. Will there be a Third Reith lecture? by glwtta · · Score: 1

    I'll probably skip that one...

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