What do you think of Stephen Hawkings theory of black holes? I am doing a paper for my astronomy class and I wanted to get people's opinions and if they have any information that they would like to share.
2007-03-22 07:31:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
To begin with it is Stephen Hawking (no "s").
I agree completely with his theory of black hole radiation, as the existence of virtual particles has been proven and he has the math to back up this theory.
Are you aware of his newest theory - that information is not lost in a black hole? It was featured on a Discovery Channel program. Basically what his newest theory says is that something that gets to the event horizon is not destroyed. From an observer out of the black hole, it would appear that the information on the object is smeared around the event horizon but does not loss its integrity. Thus, for example, an astronaut falling into the black hole's event horizon does not notice anything different but from our point of view his image would be spread around the circumference of the entire event horizon. This theory sounds pretty far out there and he is still working on the math that would prove this conjecture.
2007-03-22 08:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by Twizard113 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hawkings is not responsibke for the thoery of black holes.
It was originated by a British geologist John Michell in 1784 and put into its modern general relatvisitic form by Karl Schwarzchild in 1915. The theory of spontaneous black hole formation from stellar collapse was put forward by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1930.
All this is way before Hawkins was born.
2007-03-22 07:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't argue with the master.
2007-03-22 07:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋