INFORMATION PARADOX SOLVED? IF SO, BLACK HOLES ARE "FUZZBALLS"

Ohio State University ^ | 3/1/04 | Pam Frost Gorder

[AdmSmith]

This is probably not the final verdict, as the calculations are based on the assumption that string theory is OK.

[AdmSmith]

Strings anyone?

[b4its2late]

So, you're telling me that Rush is a "lovable little black hole"?

[AdmSmith]

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Illustration of Black Hole with Accretion Disk and Torus. An artist's conception shows a black hole surrounded by a disk of hot gas, and a large doughnut or torus of cooler gas and dust. The light blue ring on the back of the torus is due to the fluorescence of iron atoms excited by X-rays from the hot gas disk.
(Illustration: CXC/M.Weiss) Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/blackholes.html.

[martin_fierro]

Now physicists at Ohio State University have proposed a solution using string theory, a theory which holds that all particles in the universe are made of tiny vibrating strings.

This explains the whining I hear allll dayyyyy looooong.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - WORLDVIEW - INFORMATION

[NormsRevenge]

wow Bump

Nice shot from Chandra. thanks

[ClearCase_guy]

Eye of Sauron bump!

[onedoug]

Black holes are the information which comprise them, like everything else in the universe.

[coloradan]

Don't go there.

[mjp]

I wonder what the Loopers are going to say about this.

[farmfriend]

Interesting.

[paulk]

Today everyone seems to think that everything is knowable.

I wish Richard Feynman was here to remind us that "that is something no one knows".

Of course, the trend to know things that are unknowable seems to be spreading - global warming is a good example - it can only be a theory because there isn't a way to constrain an experiment to one variable unless you have a spare earth.

Those silly enough to believe "computer models prove ..." will be punished by their self inflicted consequences.

[chance33_98]

This is all Bush's fault somehow.

[lelio]

To be fair, that's an artists's conception of a black hole. Sort of like how Johnny Deep is an artist's conception of me.

[ancient_geezer]

Instead, they are stringy "fuzzballs."

Gee I got a couple of them things out in my garage. Think they might be dangerous????

Outlaw fuzzballs and only criminals will have fuzzballs.

[NormsRevenge]

I knew I'd get dinged after I saw it myself, congrats! ;-] lol

Reality gets all kinds of fuzzy the longer one sits staring at thousands of pixels too long.

Love that Chandra scope. Damn good investment in science.

[talleyman]

We cannot rely on string theory alone, because it excludes brass, woodwinds and percussion. In a politically correct universe, we must cherish diversity...

[Iris7]

Ah, yes, the old "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" question. It is nice that so many have so much time for so much frivolity.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The score to "Psycho" shows what happens when brass, woodwinds, and percussion are ignored.