Hawking peeks inside black holes? Is the CoV mailing list really the place for sexual innuendo?
That reminds me of something Stephen Hawking mentioned in his book The Universe in a Nutshell. But rather than getting the book out of my bedroom and quoting the actual passage, I’ll simply pinch something from a review of that book that I just Googled—so I don’t have to get up and walk to another room to retrieve the book. Whew!
“Stephen Hawking Explains the Big Picture”
by Deirdre Donahue, USA Today
“For a book on physics, there is an unexpected touch of the ribald to The Universe in a Nutshell. Hawking describes a 1963 trip to Paris to present a seminar on his discovery that quantum theory meant that ‘black holes are not completely black.’ Hawking writes that it was not a big success. First, the French scientists at that point did not believe in black holes. And the name repelled them. Their translation, trou noir, had ‘dubious sexual connotations.’”
It’s hard for an atheist
with a god complex
to believe in himself. —LenKen __________________________________________________
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