Published another suicide work of Stephen Hawking

In may this year we reported on the publication of the work of Stephen Hawking, in which he considered the nature of our Universe and called it part of a larger Multiverse. The article was written in collaboration with a Belgian colleague Thomas Hertogdom from the Catholic University of Louvain, but as it turned out, it is not the only recent work of one of the greatest physicists of our time. Recently was published another work, Hawking managed to finish in just a few days before his death. An article describing the findings of physics, had to finish her collaborator, Professor, University of Cambridge Malcolm Perry.

The new work of Hawking is devoted to the so-called information paradox, the phenomenon that the scientist tried to resolve the last 40 years and find out what happens to information in black holes.

In earlier work, Hawking said that the predictions of albert Einstein’s black holes, proposed, among other things, in the General theory of relativity in 1915, was incomplete. According to Einstein, a black man can be fully defined by only three properties: mass, charge and spin (angular momentum of elementary particles). 60 years later Hawking made the assumption that black holes have their own temperature.

According to Hawking, hot objects lose their heat into space, causing a black hole may completely evaporate and cease to exist. However, this is contrary to the laws of quantum mechanics, according to which information cannot just disappear. The latest work of scientists does not solve the paradox entirely, but points to the possibility of his explanation.

Published the article, Hawking and Perry is called the Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair (the Entropy of the black hole and soft hair). This strange, at first glance, the title of the article, is a reference to a physical “theorem about the absence of hair,” the black hole “hair” is a metaphorical definition of the information of matter absorbed by the black hole.

According to statements of scientists, if you throw any object into a black hole, its temperature must change. This property of physics called entropy — a measure of irreversible dispersion of energy. In the new work, Hawking suggests that to write about the change in this entropy would remain in the form of a huge number of photons on the edge of the event horizon of a black hole and have almost zero energy. Hawking and Perry and called these photons are “soft hair”.

“This work shows that these soft hair can be the judge of what happens to the entropy of a black hole,” commented Malcolm Perry edition of the Guardian.

“We don’t know yet whether or not the entropy, proposed by Hawking, is responsible for everything that falls into a black hole. There is still a lot of work to find out, but we are definitely seeing progress,” added Perry.

In an interview with the British edition of Perry also said that talking with Stephen Hawking about their research for a few days before the scientist’s death.

“Steven at the time, it was very difficult to communicate, so we switched over to speakerphone so I could explain how far we have come in the calculations. When I finished talking, Stephen smiled broadly. I just told him that we have seen some progress, but he already knew the end result,” said Mr. Perry.

Article Hawking and Perry published on the website arXiv.org where grading other scientists.

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Published another suicide work of Stephen Hawking
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