Ben:
There are some intriguing and attractive ideas in this article:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...nglement-solve
s-black-hole-paradox.html#.UcYTrfnVD6e

It begins with an explanation of what a wormhole *is* but wormholes are
not known to exist. Then it builds on that untested (and untestable)
conjecture. It's a bit reminiscent of string "theory." Turns out if you
know some math you can pick one of the 10E500 string theories and run
with it and no one can prove you right or wrong. Physicists so want
there to be a theory of quantum gravity, but they haven't yet found a
hint that there is such a theory outside of their own desires.

No, I'm not qualified to do this research myself. But I am sufficiently
science-savvy to recognize evidence when I see it, and to remain
skeptical when I don't see it.

*****

³As a conservative, I do not agree that a division of physics into
separate theories for large and small is unacceptable. I am happy with
the situation in which we have lived for the last 80 years, with
separate theories for the classical world of stars and planets and the
quantum world of atoms and electrons.² -- Freeman Dyson in a review of
Brian Greene¹s book The Fabric of the Cosmos.

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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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