Hi Thomas Edison,
Re: Hawking's recent claim that some information
will eventually escape a " black hole ".
You asked, << Okay, I might sound stupid asking this, but...
How can someone prove that this right or wrong ?
Has anyone been inside a black hole before ?! "
The start of the big bang,
the core of an ideal black hole,
the rest mass of a photon...
These are all examples of infinities.
( i.e. Where our precision is wanting )
Empiricists answer such question by
incrementally improving their precision.
Philosophers/theorists, such as the ever-popular Dr. Hawking,
answer them by looking at how science has replaced religion
over the centuries, and projecting from there.
Hawking was more popular when he talked more about
cosmic-scale wormholes and alternate universes.
But there isn't enough time in our universe for
any black hole to ever perfectly form.
Entropy wins first. ( Infinite entropy ? )
So they dissipate over trillions and trillions of years,
Eventually exploding.
But all that describe what very distant human-like frame
of reference would experience.
Removing the gravitational time dilation,
This only takes a few seconds in the black hole's frame,
just as one would expect of an exploding supernova.
So black holes remain firmly a part of our universe,
and not a tunnel to some alternate universe.
Hence Hawking's apology to sci-fi fans.
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