Listen To Hawking's Second Reith Lecture On Black Holes, Illustrated (bbc.co.uk) 17
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has now put the second of Stephen Hawking's Reith Lectures up on their web site, with accompanying illustrations. It's not 'All you ever wanted to know about Black Holes', but it's an easy introduction to some of the latest thinking on them.
The Spaceballs version of a blackhole... (Score:1)
It's not a video (Score:1)
It's a picture with "You need to install Flash Player to play this content." over top of it.
Re: It's not a video (Score:1)
Use Chrome, and hope that Google don't think that you are obsessed with "black holes " and serve you up ad's for websites that specialize in disrobed ladies of color.
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Flash? No thanks (Score:1)
This story is a waste of everyone's time. Fuck flash
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How do you listen to illustrations, exactly? (Score:2)
No fair! I saw it first! (Score:2)
Who is The Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?
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Paul Rudd, who beat Stephen Hawking at Quantum Chess! [youtube.com], That's who.
After all, they were fighting over who would give the keynote to One Entangled Evening [caltech.edu].
Its Better than his Third Reith Lecture (Score:3)
There's a Nazi joke in here somewhere.
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I did Nazi that coming.
Dated info. (Score:2, Informative)
The lecture didn't cover anything newer than Hawking Radiation. Where's the discussion over the Firewall Paradox?
Anyway, my preferred hypothesis: singularities don't exist, crossable event horizons don't exist, there is no disjoint region of spacetime beyond them, there is no unusual quantum behavior, localized inflation maintains a continuous spacetime metric at black holes by deforming infalling partial motions to a tangential path, matter/energy that falls into a black hole is as thoroughly fried and sc [cds.cern.ch]
Actual Link To Lecture Pages (Score:1)
Here is a link to the BBC's Reith Lecture Series [bbc.co.uk]. On that page, there are links to lectures from previous years. I highly recommend the thoughtful and moving lectures on health care given in 2014 by surgeon and writer Dr Atul Gawande of Harvard University.
Watch it like a sane person (Score:3)
Will there be a Third Reith lecture? (Score:2)