While writing his book, 'The history of Time', the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawkings might have grinned on the oppertunity to write the mistake Albert Einstein made while explaining the theory of relativity.
The person who now holds the chair once Newton held, is now claiming that he also made the mistake while explaining the property of a black hole.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996151

I was quite amazed to see the news on the TV and immediately searched websites for more info. By the time I am posting this, this is the only site I got any information on the news. Hawkings is scheduled to give a speech on July 21st at Dublin. He probably will say that the black hole doesn't 'engulf' all the matter that comes to the proximity but rather it is one massive chunk that keeps on radiating (Hawkins radiation) (see the link, it talks about the paradox).

The paradox is called Stephen " Turn Coat" Hawkings.

Nothing in the lurching and churning chaos of the dark secrets of the deep deep depth of the black holes are permanent. No right minded person declared there was such item termed and coined Hawkings constant. In the words of my dear Professor and formerly of Adelaide University invovled in Astrobiology and Author of books like 'The Wrinkles of God' being Mike Davies and life supporter of Hawkings has coined that Stephen "Turn Coat" Hawkings.

Ever in chaos chio.

I remember reading about radiatiating property of black holes in his book "black holes and baby universe". He also talks about black holes being not that black in his highly celebrated book "Brief history of time".
I wonder whats so new about his new theory.
Looking forward to reading it though.

Hawkings always professed that black holes defied the theories of Quantam Physics. He also always indicated apparently that only Hawkings radiation violated or escaped the black holes capacity to suck every thing inits path and blah blah boring bull crap usually that goes with theoretical physicists almost that they are God and their religion is always changing theories with advent of technological advancement. I believe it is to do with the existence of Nachos, Neutrinos and gravity waves that have violated Einstein's theory of gravity and that the cosmos is expanding with the green shift and may collapse with the red shift and much more hoo hahs based on assumptions and hypothesis. So what Hawkings changed his shrinking and decaying mind with age....The truthof the universe is mystery that no humans can ever solve....Did chiken come before or did egg come before?

I am not a physicist. However, I have always been fascinated with misteries of universe. Sometime, I wish I could go back in time and choose Physics major.

Anyway, I tend to think black holes have something to do with existence of parallel universe. Maybe pathways to another parallel universe?? What do you think?

Anything is possible. Only in the early 1990s, the scientific community realised the existence of other planetary systems and so far confirmed over 250 and the list in increasing.

By 2050, these is a great project costing over US $ between 50 to 150 billion through Japan, Russia, EU and USA to send over 150 to 300 inter-planetary probes, and form a giagantic radio telescope to confirm in the universe if any place resembles atmosphere like compositions to support life. To me that is a huge waste of money and no return on investment. It is only killing the cat by arousing the not needed curiosity. In fact, so much resources could be used in this planet here and now. Thenagain that is my opinion and respect other alternatives as well.

In the same time MISSION: INNUMERABLE

The collapse of the shuttle program and lingering doubts over the future of the International Space Station have made manned space missions the exception rather than the rule, but more robotic missions are flying than ever before. Here's a sample of what's out there, and what's coming up...

ROSETTA: Launched by the European Space Agency in March this year, Rosetta is on a very long-haul flight to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [The very name of the destination may explain why you've probably never heard of this mission.] When it finally catches the comet in 2014, Rosetta will split like Cassini/Huygens and attempt the first "soft" landing on a comet's surface.

SMART-1: ESA's experimental electric ion-drive lunar shot is now in Earth orbit, building up speed for ots journey to the Moon by gradual firings of liquid xenon propellant.

SPITZER INFRARED TELESCOPE: This is the last of NASA's four orbiting Great Observatories Program, viewing the universe at different wavelengths [after Hubble in visible light, Chandra in X-rays, and Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory]. Launched in August 2003, Spitzer is only now sending back its first remarlable images, including dust clouds around other stars where new planets are forming.

(To be continued)

Continuation of MISSION: INNUMERABLE

MESSENGER: Launching in July this year, Messenger is NASA's first mission to planet Mercury since 1975. It goes into orbit after another protracted cosmic billiards game in 2011.

NEW HORIZONS: Pluto is the only planet yet to be visited. Anearlier version of New Horizons was cancelled for budgetary reasons, but after furious lobbying, NASA will now fly ano-frills version in 2006. It will take nearly ten years to get there.

Other misions almost certain to go ahead include Mars orbitors and landers, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission to study the atmosphere of Venus in 2005, and a NASA flight to the large asteroids Ceres and Vesta in 2006. The year 2008 will probably see return to the moons of Jupiter, particularly Europa, thought to be home to a vast ocean of water beneath its icy surface and, just maybe, home to some Europans as well.

THIS IS MY LAST POSTING AS I AM TOO BUSY IN MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE.

I WISH YOU WELL AS I BID GOOD BYE.

nepal_tara888..yah thats what hawking said on his book too, if we define everything that exists in a manner that every normal human can understand then we wud be "reading the mind of god"..


yah i also saw it on CNN...
and i was wondering what were they talking about....looking forward for hawaking's speech...

khoi tyo ta thaha bhayena.....

but string theorists are suggesting that Einstein's assumption that the speed of light is the limit in the universe might jus be wrong. If string theory were to be true, we don't live in a 3d world nomore. They suggest its a 6 D world with three of its dimensions hidden and to feel the 6 D effect we'd have to be one/billionth our current size. And the best part about this theory is it can never be observed and never be experiimented, HENCE CAN NEVER BE PROVED FALSE EITHER :)

by the way, has anyone seen the movie "what the FK do u know?"

My friend always repeats the same old question, what good would it do to explore universe, to goto the moon or even planets. It ain't gonna make my life better!!

Well, if that was our attitude some hundreds years ago, Mankind won't be where it is right now.

Theoretical physics is not just to play with curious mind, it is to aid practical physics to provide some starting platform and often even, the destination.

Probing the questions like what actually a blackhole is might reveal many necessary questions. For years, Hawkings had been saying that the information contained in the blackhole is destroyed when it starts emitting Hawkings radiation. This was in contrast to Quantum law of physics and Hawkings, just like Einstein did, reasoned that the Quantum law doesn't apply here. Strings thoery provided their own explanation as Oys said, most of which is hard to be validated.

I think this new information might hint that, we actually might be able to retrieve information sucked into the black hole. Blackhole, eventually evaporates and with it, releases information that was sucked in for billion light years and which we can retrieve to visualize our past and predict our future. If indeed that is what Professor Hawkings is advocating and if he is right.

I went to this seminar about Physics where Dr. Michio Kaku, a Professor of Theoritical Physics and a co-founder of the String-Field Theory, talked about the String Theory. It was interesting how he said that Einstein and Hawkings' ideas are not enough to explain the universe, which I believe is true. The universe has apparently existed for 13.7 Billion years and we haven't even touched the power of human potential.

Doctor Bee

Einstein's theory is wrong on many counts. One of them is the very basic fact that the speed of light in a vacuum is the highest and is constant. The fact is, it is not constant but varies within some range even in a vacuum free of any major gravity (well light carries electricity and magnetism as it travels and photons should carry gravity too, albeit small) . Why should it be constant when everything else changes?

I think one aspect of spending money and resources on space and astronomy is the economics itself -- it creates a chain reaction of job creations on the basis of a little hoho and haha with echoes of wa wa and ga ga. Now one of the real reasons is the abstraction of findings in space for use on the Earth. Another minor reason is , as you know, because it is there and you cannot always sit back and masterbate if you do not have a girlfriend or keep on measuring the width of the ole vagina if you have one, but not a new one, all the time.

On the side note, no matter how much money you give to certain beggars and lazy asses, it would not make them live better; they'd better keep the money under the ground till they die and not use them rather than move their ass and think high.

To sum up, jhan bujyo jhan gaaro ... so that younger round asses get excited over overlooks left by the predecessors.

Chill out