Topic: SCIENCE - on January 24, 2014 at 3:52:00 PM CET
Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes'
Stephen Hawking has proposed a new solution to the black-hole firewall paradox, which has been vexing physicists for almost two years. The paradox troubles physicists because if the firewall scenario is correct, Einstein's general theory of relativity is flouted. But the classical theory black hole cannot be reconciled to the quantum mechanical prediction that energy and information can escape from a black hole. Now Hawking has proposed a tantalizingly simple solution to the paradox which allows both quantum mechanics and general relativity to remain intact — black holes simply do not have an event horizon to catch fire. The key to his claim is that quantum effects around the black hole cause spacetime to fluctuate too wildly for a sharp boundary surface to exist. As Hawking writes in his paper, 'The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes — in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.'
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Topic: NATURE - on January 24, 2014 at 3:50:00 PM CET
Dinge, die man wissen sollte: Wie klingt es, wenn ein Reh furzt?
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 24, 2014 at 3:49:00 PM CET
Hong Kong tycoon offers $130 million to any man who marries his lesbian daughter
A Hong Kong tycoon may double a “marriage bounty” to find a male suitor for his gay daughter to US$130 million, despite his initial offer attracting 20,000 candidates, a report said.
Two years ago, wealthy property developer Cecil Chao made global headlines by offering a reward of HK$500 million ($65 million) to any man who could persuade daughter Gigi to marry.
He is now considering increasing his offer, a report in a Malaysian financial publication said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 24, 2014 at 3:48:00 PM CET
Prisoner rats himself out with Facebook selfie of cell-grown cannabis
A Polish prisoner has taken one of the most head-desk-bang-bang selfies ever: a picture of himself, taken on a contraband mobile phone smuggled into the prison, showing a lush, equally contraband and definitely illegal cannabis plant he grew from seed in his cell.
According to Metro, Marcin Zendarski used the illegal smartphone to keep in touch with friends, watch TV shows and browse the web from an Austrian jail.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 24, 2014 at 3:46:00 PM CET
Snowden kann sich Rückkehr in die USA derzeit nicht vorstellen
Der ehemalige US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Edward Snowden kann sich auf absehbare Zeit keine Rückkehr in die Vereinigten Staaten vorstellen. "Leider ist das angesichts der gegenwärtigen Gesetze zum Informantenschutz nicht möglich", schrieb der Informant in einer Fragerunde im Internet. Grundsätzlich sei seine Rückkehr in die USA aber wohl die beste Lösung für die Regierung und ihn selbst, hieß es in der Antwort, die auf der Unterstützer-Webseite freesnowden.is/asksnowden erschien.
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