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At the seventeenth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, Stephen Hawking announced that he now believed information escapes an evaporating black hole after all, conceding the 1997 wager he and Kip Thorne had made against John Preskill and paying the agreed forfeit, a baseball encyclopedia. Thorne did not concede. The argument Hawking offered was not widely accepted as a resolution, and the problem remained open; the episode is included because it is often reported as the moment the paradox was settled, which it was not.

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  1. Story
  2. At the seventeenth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, Stephen Hawking announced that he now believed information escapes an evaporating black hole after all, conceding the 1997 wager he and Kip Thorne had made against John Preskill and paying the agreed forfeit, a baseball encyclopedia. Thorne did not concede. The argument Hawking offered was not widely accepted as a resolution, and the problem remained open; the episode is included because it is often reported as the moment the paradox was settled, which it was not.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The black hole information paradox
  5. Stephen Hawking
  6. Hawking concedes the information bet
  7. Connections
  8. The black hole information paradox
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Hawking radiation
  11. The no-hair result
  12. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
  13. Page states what unitarity requires of the radiation
  14. Hawking concedes the information bet
  15. The Page curve is reproduced from within semiclassical gravity
  16. Hawking radiation
  17. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
  18. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
  19. Hawking concedes the information bet
  20. Evidence
  21. Argues that black hole evaporation destroys information and therefore conflicts with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: not consulted in session; no research tool was available. Volume and page are from recall and must be checked.
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