Gray Holes

This is way too complex for laymen like me to comprehend fully, but renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking announced today that he had proven that information can indeed escape from black holes. The conventional wisdom the wheelchair-bound genius -- author of A Brief History of Time -- had advocated since the early 1970s was that black holes have such gigantic mass that nothing, even light, can escape. Hawking now says he was wrong, meaning that black holes cannot be "worm holes" to venture through to parallel universes.

And here I thought that, with private space travel coming soon, we could all engage in our own personal quantum leaps. Oh well. Stuck on this earth forever. But it remains true that time is relative, because while you may think you're reading this now, the present is already the past. Ponder that one!!

 Posted by glenn