Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Hawking had opinions on the black hole info paradox

From the NY Times Stephen Hawking obituary:





Despite his concession, however, the information paradox, as it is known, has become one of the hottest and deepest topics in theoretical physics. Physicists say they still do not know how information gets in or out of black holes.
Not only that, but physicists do not have a sufficiently coherent definition of information in order to make this a paradox. And even if they did, there were be no way to resolve an issue about information leaking out of a black hole.

This shows the sorry state of theoretical physics, that such a non-question could be "one of the hottest and deepest topics".
He probably had some other degenerative disease.
Mars will always be much more hostile to human life than the Earth, no matter what we do to Earth.



There is not any hope that string theory will do that.

Hawking's scientific reputation rests on two things: extending the Penrose singularity theorems, and arguing that quantum effects cause black holes to very slowly radiate.


  1. All that arrogance and not one provable contribution to science. He was basically a Bill Nye. (Note: I'm still getting somatic clicks in my throat and ears)

  2. Bill Nye is far worse.

    1. The New World Order is a group of demon-controlled fools: "Increased attention given to UFO activity promotes the concept of political unification of this planet. This is perhaps the most commonly recurring theme in my entire study of these groups."~Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception﻿

  3. We actually have a Stephen Hawking story in my family that we tell whenever we want to make my step brother blush.

    My mother attended a lecture Dr. Hawking was giving at UCSB back in the 80's about quantum mechanics at the request of her government employers. At the time, Hawking was still using one of his assistants to interpret for him instead of using the voice synthesizer he became well known for.

    Before the lecture started, she spotted my step brother (who was a student at UCSB in the nuclear engineering program at the time) who was also attending the lecture. She waved to him and called out to him by name before she proudly told those sitting around her "That's my son sitting over there!" my step brother was utterly mortified. His friends promptly teased him "Hey man, your MOM is checking up on you!"

    My brother was even further embarrassed when it turned out many of his class mates ended up copying my mother's notes from the lecture, she apparently was already familiar with the material.