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 John
Preskill wins wager with Stephen Hawking
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In
July 2004, at the 17th International Conference on General Relativity
and Gravitation, Professor John Preskill received Total Baseball:
The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia from Stephen Hawking. The
two, along with Caltech Professor Kip Thorne, wagered on whether
information is preserved or not upon being sucked into a black
hole.
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Preskill,
John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech,
and Director of IST's Center
for the Physics of Information, made a bet in 1997 with Hawking
and Thorne that information is indeed preserved upon entering
a black hole, and is not destroyed, as Hawking and Thorne maintained.
While Hawking now agrees with Preskill, Thorne has yet to concede
the bet.
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New York Times coverage
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