Thursday, July 22, 2004

Singularity my robotic ass

Stuff goes in-Stuff comes out Steven Hawking hit the news this week announcing that after many years of thought he is reversing his 1975 assertion that Hawking Radiation, the dribs and drabs of heat energy that escapes a black hole, is not a significant paradox of the event horizon. Turns out that over the verrrry long haul everything comes back, including information about what exactly went into the gravity well although well mangled by that point. He addressed some of his comments to the science fiction fans in the audience saying that they'l have to look somewhere else for the secret trapdoor out.
Despite his brushoff this week I am sticking to my guns. Maybe he'll come around to my way of believing that the stuff coming out is someone else's stuff and, if we are really patient, we can sift through it and confirm that the emissions are really a message or at least some banana peels and old newspapers from the other side. Ten foot tall intelligent blue bananas, with hands for holding the newspapers.

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