“If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out,” said Stephen Hawking tonight in a public lecture in Stockholm while revealing his latest idea that black holes offer a possible passage to another universe. The legendary scientist and author said tonight that he has discovered a mechanism “by which information … Continue reading “Hawking: information lost in black holes could be stored in alternate universes”
Video clip: Stephen Hawking is escorted by KTH President Peter Gudmundson as he arrives for the first day of the Hawking Radiation Conference, being held on the KTH campus this week. Stephen Hawking will present what he describes as “a new idea” concerning black holes tomorrow, at a special conference on Hawking radiation that is … Continue reading “Hawking’s ‘new idea’ about black holes”
What would happen to you if you were sucked into a black hole? Would you disappear without a trace? Physicists have argued for years that these bottomless pits of space-time gobble up anything that gets too close to their gravitational field, seal it away for good, and then eventually evaporate, leaving no trace of what … Continue reading “Hawking and others set out to solve black hole paradox — here in Stockholm”
We just finished this Google Hangout from Greenland with Jari Krützfeldt, a student at the Centre for Naval Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Watch the video on Youtube to find out more about the project he’s working on in the Arctic Ocean, which will help get accurate data about the currents that are believed … Continue reading “Live on tape from Greenland!”
While the rest of Europe broils in the summer heat, one student from Sweden will be chilling out — literally. Jari Krützfeldt, a student at the Centre for Naval Architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, will sail aboard the Swedish icebreaker, Oden, which is bound for the icy waters at the mouth of the Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. His … Continue reading “Deep sea probes face ultimate test in Arctic Ocean”
