Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper: How to Escape from a Black Hole
This was so difficult for me to understand because the author tried _so hard_ to make this sound poetic.<p>Here&#x27;s what I got..<p>- For a long time we thought that any information (matter&#x2F;light) that goes into a blackhole is lost forever and is &quot;corrupted&quot;.<p>- Hawking believed this for a long time and said “God not only plays dice, but he often throws them where they can’t be seen.&quot; No one really knows _how_ the blackhole actually &quot;corrupted&quot; the information but had some nutty theories.<p>- 30 years later (in 2004) Hawking changed his mind and said that information can actually be retrieved from a blackhole.<p>- A dude named Andrew Strominger recently discovered that black holes have this &quot;soft hair&quot; property that can be &quot;read&quot; to theoretically &quot;see&quot; what is inside the blackhole.<p>- Hawkings last paper says that he thinks the information inside will be re-emitted when the black hole evaporates.<p>TL;DR: Hawking for a long time thought matter&#x2F;information that went into a blackhole was lost forever - and then changed his mind about it.