Very interesting...
From newscientist.com
Hawking cracks black hole paradox
"After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking is saying he was wrong. It seems that black holes may after all allow information within them to escape. Hawking will present his latest finding at a conference in Ireland next week.
The about-turn might cost Hawking, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, an encyclopaedia because of a bet he made in 1997. More importantly, it might solve one of the long-standing puzzles in modern physics, known as the black hole information paradox."
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Hawking cracks black hole paradox | New Scientist
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>>It seems that black holes may after all allow information within them to escape.
Ha! Blackholes have nothing on John Kerry. That man can dodge and escape any reporter's question while giving the impression of giving information - when in reality all you got was nothing.
I have a way to prove Hawkings theory. I say we shoot John Kerry into space towards the nearest black hole. I bet his "escape", "avoiding" and "dodging" skills will let John Kerry escape the black hole.