Talk:Stephen Hawking

''The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon.''

I kind of know what this means. Some scientists think that when information (or light) goes into a black hole and disapears forever. Hawking (and einstein) thinks that this is bullcrap, and that it must go somewhere. It might be stored until the black hole evaporates, or goes out the other end. --Sneakers 09:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)