Hawking shatters science fiction fans’ fantasy
Professor Hawking’s radical new thinking was presented in a paper to the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin.
It capped his three-decade struggle to explain an elemental paradox in scientific thinking: How can black holes destroy all traces of consumed matter and energy, as Prof Hawking long believed, when subatomic theory says such elements must survive in some form?
