After a few weeks of waiting, I finally got to hear Stephen Hawking live and in person talking about his ideas for solving the so-called “Black Hole Information Paradox” (which I talked about in one earlier post and on another about my trip to BBC World. Hawking came to Imperial College for a meeting celebrating…

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I just spent about three minutes talking to the BBC World 6 o’clock news anchor (Nik Gowing) about Black Holes, quantum mechanics, and information. (And allowed the BBC’s budget to shuttle me from Imperial College to White City and finally to Paddington.) He was perhaps less interested in the science than in Hawking’s bet with…

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At about 4pm, the phone rang — it was the BBC! Apparently, an editor there had read in New Scientist that Stephen Hawking had solved the “Black Hole Information Paradox.” So — despite the fact that he won’t be presenting the results until the GR17 meeting in Dublin next week — I’m off to the…

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