Black holes

[chicken]

Hey, mmcirvin and other Physics-interested people -- right now on WBUR, they are discussing Stephen Hawking's new theory about how stuff (my bad word choice) actually can get out of black holes.

Neato. Can't listen to the rest of it myself, but you all go have a listen. They will repeat it tonight and archive it for listening later tomorrow as usual.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Well, as far as I can figure, it's not exactly "stuff getting out" so much as "correlations in faint radiation that have information content comparable to all the doomed stuff that died screaming on the way in".

And this actually brings Hawking closer to what seems to be a gathering consensus on this particular theoretical puzzle.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Well, that didn't make any sense to me, but I'll take your word for it.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that actually sounds like something Tim said. It was information something something lost something black hole hair something something information something.

Paraphrasing.