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Stephen Hawking’s Beautiful Mind
Just saw a very interesting BBC documentary entitled "The Hawking Paradox" on Channel NewsAsia's Documentary of the Week. It explains how Professor Stephen Hawking, who happens to be one of my childhood heroes, made a scientific U-turn, contradicting a claim that he made 30 years ago on the black hole information paradox. What is remarkable is that he did this in-spite of his failing health from ALS.It is heart-wrenching to see him painstakingly dictate letter by letter of his new paper to his research student. Yet it is inspiring to see the unfailing determination of the human spirit at work. Add to that his rather cheeky admission of having lost an old time bet makes him out as someone who is very smart, yet genuinely funny at the same time.His paper "Information Loss In Black Holes", which is rather short and wittily written can be found here. For a good technical discourse and explanation of the paper, you can read it here.By the way, Step
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