Hawking about face on Black Holes

astroron (Ron) · #1 09-03-2009, 07:32 PM

Hawking changes his mind after thirty years

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3913145.stm

renormalised (Carl) · #2 09-03-2009, 07:54 PM

Very interesting. I would have loved to have been at that conference and attending Hawking's lecture. It would've been very interesting and entertaining.

Quark (Trevor) · #3 09-03-2009, 08:11 PM

A most interesting read Ron,

I feel really privileged to live in the same era as Stephen Hawking. He most certainly makes up for his physical disabilities with the athleticism of his intellect and mind.

Regards
Trevor

sheeny (Al) · #4 09-03-2009, 08:11 PM

Thanks for the link Ron.

Al.

Astro78 · #5 09-03-2009, 11:01 PM

thanks for the link, i've been incorrectly telling people for years that he handed a bottle of wine over for the 'bet'

Pats on the back to Hawking for the backflip, not done enough at this level of theory.

AlexN · #6 10-03-2009, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quark

I feel really privileged to live in the same era as Stephen Hawking.

I feel the same way.. Definitely the most brilliant scientific mind of our time... It is nice to see that people, even at this level of the scientific community are willing to publicly change their ideas, and even more so, do a 180° turn on their ideas in the pursuit of knowledge.. So many people would either be too proud to go against their own original ideas, or too headstrong to admit when they may have been wrong..

Cheers for posting Ron.
Alex.