Hawking's new hypothesis: black holes dribble after swallowing

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[MacBaine]

Post the article.... nobody is going to register.

 

[MacBaine]

"Black Holes, the biggest sluts in the universe."

 

[Pathogen03]

You dont have to register, click:

"dont register me now and continue to the article" at the bottom.

 

[Pathogen03]

bah, the fvcking thing refers you to a science magazine for the full story. 🙁

 

[Carbonadium4]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996151

heres a direct link to another article


Hawking cracks black hole paradox


19:00 14 July 04

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After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking is saying he was wrong. It seems that black holes may after all allow information within them to escape. Hawking will present his latest finding at a conference in Ireland next week.

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, known as the black hole information paradox.

It was Hawking's own work that created the paradox. In 1976, he calculated that once a black hole forms, it starts losing mass by radiating energy. This "Hawking radiation" contains no information about the matter inside the black hole and once the black hole evaporates, all information is lost.

But this conflicts with the laws of quantum physics, which say that such information can never be completely wiped out. Hawking's argument was that the intense gravitational fields of black holes somehow unravel the laws of quantum physics.

Other physicists have tried to chip away at this paradox. 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 - in which the universe is made of tiny, vibrating strings rather than point-like particles - then the black hole becomes a giant tangle of strings. And the Hawking radiation emitted by this "fuzzball" does contain information about the insides of a black hole (New Scientist print edition, 13 March).

 

[cronos]

thanks for the info. i used to like these things 🙂

 

[Gunslinger08]

I love this stuff. It has no impact whatsoever on my life, but it's interesting as hell to watch them argue.

 

[yukichigai]

Bumped with link to CNN Article


Interesting stuff. Makes a lot of SciFi stories implausable now. Though like that's the first time it's happened. 😛

 

[MaxDepth]

Ah-ha! I was right!
I win a bet with a couple of my friends! (Of course no one has actually traveled to a black hole to give us definitive proof.)

I always believed that a black hole was repository for captured matter, like a reverse sun. And since we don't have a geophysical reference for such entities, we always thought it flat like a disk. But since light and gravity are bent around such entities, we cannot see it as a spherical object.

Now the real sci-fi would be to have something emerge from a dying black hole. That would be creepy.


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[Lash444]

Now the real sci-fi would be to have something emerge from a dying black hole. That would be creepy.

Yeah, like if you watched your grandpa die on the toilet.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Lash444

Now the real sci-fi would be to have something emerge from a dying black hole. That would be creepy.

Yeah, like if you watched your grandpa die on the toilet.

Which begs the question, "why were you watching your Grandpa on the toilet?"

 

[Lash444]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Lash444

Now the real sci-fi would be to have something emerge from a dying black hole. That would be creepy.

Yeah, like if you watched your grandpa die on the toilet.

Which begs the question, "why were you watching your Grandpa on the toilet?"

Um, if i knew the answer to that, I wouldnt be paying for counseling

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: Lash444

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Lash444

Now the real sci-fi would be to have something emerge from a dying black hole. That would be creepy.

Yeah, like if you watched your grandpa die on the toilet.

Which begs the question, "why were you watching your Grandpa on the toilet?"

Um, if i knew the answer to that, I wouldnt be paying for counseling

stop it :|

 

[Amorphus]

The about-turn might cost Hawking, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, an encyclopaedia because of a bet he made in 1997.

Hee, hee.

 

[Lash444]

Originally posted by: Atomicus

Originally posted by: Lash444

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Lash444

Now the real sci-fi would be to have something emerge from a dying black hole. That would be creepy.

Yeah, like if you watched your grandpa die on the toilet.

Which begs the question, "why were you watching your Grandpa on the toilet?"

Um, if i knew the answer to that, I wouldnt be paying for counseling

stop it :|

Hey, Im a police officer.