Rumors have been spreading that Stephen Hawking might be considering moving to the Perimeter Institute. These rumors have been officially denied. The real story here, however is not about Hawking relocating, but whether Stephen Hawking has turned into an experimental physicist and is testing the black hole information paradox by throwing himself into the Blackberry hole. I mean, if Hawking can visit for one month, and then escape from the Perimeter Institute, then I think we can conclude that the unitarity of quantum theory is safe. However, if Hawking get's sucked in, I myself will worry that information really is destroyed at the Perimeter Institute in a black hole.
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Hawking To Fall Into the Blackberry Hole?
Category: Physics
Posted on: July 17, 2008 1:08 PM, by Dave Bacon
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I've gotta ask: did you make that LOL pic yourself? It's awesome. (BTW, the link to Perimiter's site is broken in an amusing way.)
Posted by: Chris Granade | July 17, 2008 2:38 PM
Fixed the Perimeter link, thanks.
Yeah I made it myself. Nothing like a little LOL therapy to make me happy.
Posted by: Dave | July 17, 2008 2:58 PM
Wow, Perimeter Institute creates the acronym Pi! What are the odds?
Posted by: JohnQPublic | July 17, 2008 4:39 PM
Perimeter -> Pi and funded partially by a RIM founder. The circle theme may not be entirely accidental.
Posted by: Joe Fitzsimons | July 17, 2008 8:50 PM
Now if he were able to come to PI for a bit and then return to Cambridge and make it seem as if he was never there to begin with, perhaps he will have solved the aforementioned paradox via a closed time-like curve...
Posted by: Ian Durham | July 18, 2008 11:14 AM
Strange how the entropically (?) arranged words are still understandable.
Posted by: JohnQPublic | July 18, 2008 1:31 PM