I remember reading about this little bet in "Brief History of Time." Looks like Hawking lost! =)

[Agent 57]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... 5734988</a>

I remember reading about this little bet in "Brief History of Time." Looks like Hawking lost! =)</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It's an interesting announcement... Seems as though the universe is a little less complicated than we though that it was yesterday.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/fuz ... BLACKHOLES ARE REALLY FUZZBALLS?????</a>

That's cool, but I wish they would bother to at least summarize the solution to the problem. I found an article that covers the physics part more in depth</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Good stuff.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow, that sums it up way better than the Fresno Bee. The Bee said some crap about Hawkings believing that black holes were interdimensional warps or some crap, and I was left thinking "Hey, I read his book, and he never said anything like that..."</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I only scanned through that one breifly, but the stuff about string theory caught my eye. I thought the string theory was largely abandoned some time ago?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Not hardly. Read "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene. The theory, however, makes predictions that we can't test experimentally yet.</div>