Stephen Hawking just delivered a status report on the search for a solution to the information loss paradox, at the conclusion of a weeklong conference being held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The conference was sponsored by Nordita, a theoretical physics research center co-driven by KTH and Stockholm University. The organizer was … Continue reading “Hawking discusses results of black hole conference”
It might not settle the argument over what happens to information trapped in black holes, but Stephen Hawking’s new theory dominated the discussion today at a specially-convened meeting of world-leading physicists, held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Black holes don’t actually swallow and destroy physical information, according to a theory Hawking proposed at the Hawking Radiation … Continue reading “Hawking proposes way for information to escape destruction in black hole”
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”
Your car, home and even your clothes could one day soon be outfitted with soft, squishy and shock-proof batteries that are made from — wait for it — trees. Researchers at KTH’s Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) used wood-based nanocellulose for this latest breakthrough, which dramatically expands the storage capacity of batteries. “It is possible … Continue reading “Wood you believe? Forests will produce more than lumber and paper”
