Must see TV for the scientists amongst us

[The Late, Great JC]

plane tit: Hey, I made that up all on my own. I'm quite proud of it. Made me chuckle.

Tiny things... etc.

[threaded]

plane tit: Hey, I made that up all on my own. I'm quite proud of it. Made me chuckle.

[planetit]

Took you a while to Google that Threaded.

3/10 - must try harder.

[DimPrawn]

Thanks for clearing that up Threaded. I'm sure it's hard for you to find time to solve these mysteries when you have better things to do like drive Lambos and shag lady diplomats.

[threaded]

DimPrawn: It is not really a paradox. What Hawking did was try to combine a model of the small scale: quantum mechanics, with with a model of the large scale: relativity, using a mathematical technique developed by Penrose.

So essentially you have a probabilty system shoe horned into a limits system using a platonist system.

Small wonder it is all a little confused.

When they dump quantum mechanics for something better it will be so obvious: the information is not lost, it stays there, and just cannot be seen.

HTH

[The Late, Great JC]

Comic book guy, of course. Here he is at the Ambassador's party...

Oh no!!!! I actually understand the shirt!

[Lucifer Box]

Yes but who is the brains of the outfit. The guy in the chair is a remote controled front.Who is driving him?

Say no more...

[Lucifer Box]

BTW, threaded was on the Simpsons? What sort of character did he play?

Comic book guy, of course. Here he is at the Ambassador's party...

[The Late, Great JC]

BTW, threaded was on the Simpsons? What sort of character did he play?

Waylon Smithers!

[wendigo100]

Is this Hawking's recent volte face, where he now believes that not all information is lost when something enters a black hole? I seem to remember him announcing this during the past year, which flew against the model he had developed over the previous 25 years.

BTW, threaded was on the Simpsons? What sort of character did he play?

[The Lone Gunman]

Yes but who is the brains of the outfit. The guy in the chair is a remote controled front.Who is driving him?

[The Late, Great JC]

He appeared on StarTrek, what more do you need to know?

...and "The Simpsons"!

[DimPrawn]

BBC2, 9.00pm Tonight:

Does Stephen Hawking's celebrity outweigh his real contribution to science? That's the question at the heart of this deep, deep film. That and lots of near-unfathomable questions about black holes. The biggest of which is whether they don't just eat up space and time, but information, too - a shocking theory that Hawking maintained for 30 years. If his "information paradox" were true, we're told, all that science holds dear would fly out of the window. Which is why Hawking's rivals have tried for years to disprove it, and apparently succeeded. Only now, Hawking, frailer than ever, is fighting back with a new hole theory. It's a heroic story, and the film does an admirable job with the daunting physics, giving us a taste of big ideas but never overtaxing us. You just hope Hawking lives long enough to bring off one last coup.


Threaded need not watch, he knows the answer already.