Scientists Believe , They Have Solved, the Hawking Paradox.
Yahoo reports that scientists believe they have solved a major paradox in science that was first identified by the late Professor Stephen Hawking.
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Yahoo reports that scientists believe they have solved a major paradox in science that was first identified by the late Professor Stephen Hawking.
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Hawking first noted that black holes behave in a way that pits two fundamental theories against each other.
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Hawking first noted that black holes behave in a way that pits two fundamental theories against each other.
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According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, , whatever enters a black hole , cannot escape.
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According to quantum mechanics, , that is impossible.
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Researchers now claim they have cracked the paradox by showing that black holes possess what they call "quantum hair.".
According to Yahoo, the name comes from an earlier theory called the 'no hair theorem,' developed in the 1960s by Prof. John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton University.
According to Yahoo, the name comes from an earlier theory called the 'no hair theorem,' developed in the 1960s by Prof. John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton University.
It was named that because black holes are unique entities that possess mass, spin and charge but have no other physical features.
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In other words, they're bald.
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The new 'yes hair theory' claims to have resolved the paradox first pointed out by Hawking by attempting to bridge the gap between the two competing theories.
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The new 'yes hair theory' claims to have resolved the paradox first pointed out by Hawking by attempting to bridge the gap between the two competing theories.
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One of the consequences of the Hawking paradox was that general relativity and quantum mechanics was incompatible.
What we are finding is that they are very much compatible, Prof Xavier Calmet, theory co-author at the University of Sussex, via BBC.
The potentially revolutionary theory was published in the journal 'Physical Review Letters.'
