On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:20:00 -0500, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:04 AM > > Subject: Hawking . . . > > > > >" If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be > > > returned to our universe, but in a mangled form, which contains the > > > information about what you were like, but in an unrecognizable > > state." > > > > > > Stephen Hawking > > > July 21, 2004 > > > > But Steevie baby! Black holes are a part of *this* universe. You > > cannot "return" to some place you never left. > > My understanding of his statement is that once you cross the event > horizon, you might as well be, for all intents and purposes to anyone > who hadn't, be in another universe. > > And that probably didn't parse well as well. > > Julia
My reading of it is that he has decided you can never cross over the event horizon - you are falling into the black hole but never make it down before the black hole in some future time ceases to be a black hole. His formal paper isn't out and I probably would be unable to cipher it anyway. Gary -- #1 on google for liberal news _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
