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rip “black hole”

April 14th, 2008

 

In the jjosh effort to keep you up to date on all potential black hole occurences, it should be noted that John Wheeler, the scientist who coined the term "black hole", has just died, at the age of 96. New York Times obit here. Here is a great quote from him:

The black hole “teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as ‘sacred,’ as immutable, are anything but."

Too bad he died before we potentially create a "black hole" in "Sweden."

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