Physicists split on ideas expressed in Hawking's latest black hole paper
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 09:03
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—It has been nearly a month since, Stephen Hawking, Malcolm Perry and Andrew Strominger uploaded a paper to the arXiv preprint server that described a possible solution to the black-hole conundrum—they showed a way that information that had been pulled into a black hole could be retained via soft particles. Now that others in the field have had time to react to the paper, there appears to be a split—some agree with the findings in the paper while others suggest that there is still a vital piece of the puzzle to be explained.