Physicists have demonstrated that black holes aren't just complete vacuums, some things can actually get out. This research could end a decades-long debate sparked by Stephen Hawking. Who will be the loser in this debate? Albert Einstein, because the findings challenge his theory of general relativity, which contends that not even light can escape black holes.
A researcher involved explained the findings this way, "Information only appears to be lost because we have been looking at a restricted part of the true quantum mechanical space-time. Once you consider quantum gravity, then space-time becomes much larger and there is room for information to reappear in the distant future on the other side of what was first thought to be the end of space-time."
What does this all mean? Who knows. Our expertise lies in booze and boobs.
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Thursday 15 May
By Julian
The technobabble translates to- Its concievable that, in the extremely distant future (many billions of years), the black hole will spew out what it has absorbed in a different (inaccessible) area of space-time.
Think of it as someone chugging food: The food is apparently destroyed, but eventually it, uh... exits by other means.
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Thursday 15 May
By mike blair
no one knows what this means...it's complete and utter nonsense...einstein's general theory has passed test after test after test...there's absolutely no reason to dismiss it now
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Friday 16 May
By Chris Cornell
Did someone say Quantum Booze and Space Tits?
Burp...
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Friday 16 May
By Good Guy, Bad Guy
A blackhole is just acting as a conversion from matter to energy, or low-level energy to higher level energy. (See evaporation of blackholes)
Nothing is truly lost, just converted. Not like this is Quantum Physics or any... Nm... I guess it kinda is.
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