Stephen
Hawking is one of the creators of black hole theory using relativistic physics.
(Actually, it would have been possible to come up with a black hole theory
using the old Newtonian physics, but nobody ever bothered to.) Hawking has actually
become quite the celebrity from his work, and he even appeared in an episode of
Star Trek: The Next Generation. He’s
one of the most easily recognized scientists in the world.
A black hole during a total eclipse
Now
Hawking has rethought it and declared black holes do not exist. A standard
feature of science fiction has vanished, as if it had fallen into . . . well,
we’ll think of something. Easy for Hawking to say—sorry I was wrong about what’s
made me famous over the past few decades, next I’ll invent some other
impossible things for you yokels to believe in.
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