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brooklynite

(94,571 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 03:07 PM Oct 2018

Hawking's final science study released

Source: BBC

Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper has been released, and it deals with one of the central topics in the physicist's 56-year-long career.

The work was completed in the days before Hawking's death in March.

It tackles the question of whether black holes preserve information on the stuff that falls into them.

Some researchers had believed this information was destroyed, but others said that this violated the laws of quantum mechanics.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45826748

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Hawking's final science study released (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2018 OP
Last I heard, Stephen saidsimplesimon Oct 2018 #1
Thank you, Brooklynite Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #2

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
1. Last I heard, Stephen
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 03:39 PM
Oct 2018

was exploring the possibility that we live in the "matrix" an illusion like a hologram.

Thank you for sharing I will bookmark to read later.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
2. Thank you, Brooklynite
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 10:17 PM
Oct 2018

I had been waiting for the release of this. We knew it was coming out, but didn't know when.

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