Hawking Changes His Mind on Black Holes

[MacGuffin]

LONDON - After almost 30 years of arguing that a black hole swallows up everything that falls into it, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking backpedaled Thursday. In doing so, he lost one of the most famous bets in recent scientific history.

Well hot damn. I figured the NT people here would appreciate this story.

Yahoo AP News link:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20040716/ap_on_sc/britain_black_holes

[ApostateAbe]

I do appreciate the story. It causes me to look up to Stephen Hawking more than I did before. One who never changes his mind seldomly gets respect from me.

[indczn]

I am really fascinated with Hawkin and his discussions. That article isnt overly helpful. Does anyone know where a transcript of the Dublin discussion will be availible to read? I would love to get ahold of it and find out why he changed his point of view. Thanks.

[file cabinet]

found a link to this on slashdot: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996151
explains about it a bit more.

[paladinoflunaria]

Good post- very interesting. I can't wait to hear the news of the conference.

[file cabinet]

bump:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/21/225226&tid=160

[Jasz]

I do appreciate the story. It causes me to look up to Stephen Hawking more than I did before. One who never changes his mind seldomly gets respect from me.

consistency is highly overrated

[rawr]

Until someone experiments with a black hole. All theories remain theories.

[Dom]

consistency is highly overrated

Why resurrect this thread?

[lbloom]

I enjoyed it.

[Avengardh]

I did too.