----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: Re: Hawking . . .
> 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. Sure, but everyone can watch you fall in for a few thousand years too.<G> As I understand things, if it is detectable in *this* universe, it is a part of *this* universe. AFAIK not a single extra-universal event has ever been observed. (Possible arguments from adherants to Mtheory ensue) > > And that probably didn't parse well as well. > It was just fine actually! xponent Branes, Fresh Branes Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
