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John Titor's Legacy
John Titor Debate (The Time Tunnel)
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<blockquote data-quote="PamelaM" data-source="post: 58131" data-attributes="member: 258"><p><a href="http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/05/12587515-higgs-big-loser-why-stephen-hawking-is-such-a-bad-gambler?lite" target="_blank">Higgs' big loser: Why Stephen Hawking is such a bad gambler - Cosmic Log</a></p><p></p><p>Back in 1975, he bet Caltech physicist Kip Thorne that there was no black hole at the center of the X-ray source known as Cygnus X-1. By 1998, he conceded that the black hole was there, and got Thorne a year's subscription to Penthouse magazine as a payoff.</p><p> </p><p>In 1997, Thorne and Hawking bet Caltech's John Preskill that information is completely lost when something falls into a black hole.<span style="color: #ff6600"> But in 2004,</span> <span style="color: #ff6600">Hawking changed his mind</span> and said that information could conceivably leak out of a black hole. Hawking paid up by sending Preskill the repository of information he requested: a baseball encyclopedia. At last report, Thorne had not yet conceded</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PamelaM, post: 58131, member: 258"] [url="http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/05/12587515-higgs-big-loser-why-stephen-hawking-is-such-a-bad-gambler?lite"]Higgs' big loser: Why Stephen Hawking is such a bad gambler - Cosmic Log[/url] Back in 1975, he bet Caltech physicist Kip Thorne that there was no black hole at the center of the X-ray source known as Cygnus X-1. By 1998, he conceded that the black hole was there, and got Thorne a year's subscription to Penthouse magazine as a payoff. In 1997, Thorne and Hawking bet Caltech's John Preskill that information is completely lost when something falls into a black hole.[COLOR=#ff6600] But in 2004,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff6600]Hawking changed his mind[/COLOR] and said that information could conceivably leak out of a black hole. Hawking paid up by sending Preskill the repository of information he requested: a baseball encyclopedia. At last report, Thorne had not yet conceded [/QUOTE]
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