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For me, personally, to become a genius, you must be able to admit being wrong.
With that out of the way; I just read in Nature Science Highlights, that Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University admitted to being wrong in that black holes obliterate all information.
He previously thought that, in a black hole, spacetime would pinch, to form a singularity. This singularity was infinitely small. Thus, the information was destroyed.
Recently, he has been working on a quantum theory of gravity. (he's been trying to merge QT with Relativity). Hawking changed his mind from the singularity being infinitely small, to that it just curves spacetime severely, allowing information to be (if necessay, in theory) retrieved.
Check it out at Nature.com
Paden Roder
With that out of the way; I just read in Nature Science Highlights, that Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University admitted to being wrong in that black holes obliterate all information.
He previously thought that, in a black hole, spacetime would pinch, to form a singularity. This singularity was infinitely small. Thus, the information was destroyed.
Recently, he has been working on a quantum theory of gravity. (he's been trying to merge QT with Relativity). Hawking changed his mind from the singularity being infinitely small, to that it just curves spacetime severely, allowing information to be (if necessay, in theory) retrieved.
Check it out at Nature.com
Paden Roder