Part 3/5 BBC Science Documentary - The Hawking paradox

In 1981 there was a meeting of physicists to try and decode some of the mysteries about how particles of particular elemental compounds function. During this discussion Stephen Hawking stated that the information inside a black hole is lost forever as the black hole evaporates where as Leonard Susskind had other idea's. This feud of the titans would become one ingrained in scientific history.

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[ToadsMGodes]

I swear I lost a set of keys down a black hole, this documentary proves it..The keys just...vanished

[possumverde]

Since according to Hawking black holes radiate heat and eventually evaporate, wouldn't the radiated heat just be the information being released only in a different state than when it went in?

[mattos000]

@possumverde yes. mass is just a concentrated form of energy (from e=mc2). so the mass that is sucked into the black hole is radiated out as heat (which is a form of energy) and so no matter would actually be lost. this was my conclusion anyway.

[TheRequireMHD]

@Cheetree1 Only physics since we can't know everything.

[ffletcherr]

I wonder what it'd be like to go through a black hole. Aside from the fact that you'd be stretched, squished and ripped into a billion pieces :p

[Cheetree1]

science is self contradicting 

[TheWayshowerTube]

@possumverde Yeah?? That's the same thing. I mean a bushfire? Smoke goes somewhere right?

[TheWayshowerTube]

Blackholes are like the garbage men. We need someone to clean up the universe at times.

[gcirc]

the science of guessing