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Jul 23, 2004 · In 1997, John Preskill (left), Kip Thorne (center), and Stephen Hawking (right) made a bet as to whether black holes preserve information. Preskill bet yes, Hawking and Thorne bet no. Hawking has recently changed his mind and settled the bet, but Thorne remains a holdout. Courtesy Caltech / Heidi Aspaturian.
May 2, 2018 · On December 10, 1974, Hawking made a bet with Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne over whether Cygnus X-1, a massive x-ray source in our galaxy, was a black hole. Both were fairly certain it was.
Oct 11, 2018 · The next part of the story starts with a bet in 1991. Hawking and Caltech physicist Kip Thorne bet John Preskill (also at Caltech) that information that falls into a black hole is destroyed, and ...
Jul 10, 2012 · Hawking and another physicist, Caltech's Kip Thorne, bet Preskill in 1997 that he was wrong about the information paradox and agreed to supply an encyclopedia to the winner.
Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! dmoberhaus writes: In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a bet with Nobel Prize-winning cosmologist Kip Thorne about a black hole. The wager was a subscription to the softcore porn magazine Penthouse for Thorne or a subscription to "Private Eye" (basically the British equivalent of The Onion) for Hawking.
Nov 7, 2014 · In 1997, Hawking and a physicist named Kip Thorne made a famous bet against another physicist named John Preskill. Hawking and Thorne argued that information really was getting destroyed, and ...
Mar 18, 2014 · Back in 1975, for some reason he bet Kip Thorne that black holes didn’t exist, which makes little sense because much of Hawking’s work is based on the idea that black holes do exist.
