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From the article: "Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven that quantum effects are strong enough to stop the formation of black holes..." If I'm not
by davesque 12y ago
From the article:
"Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven that quantum effects are strong enough to stop the formation of black holes..."
If I'm not mistaken, Mersini-Houghton's work has just hit the scene. It still has to be vetted by the larger community before we could say that anything's been "proven."
- ihuman 12y agoAlso from the article: "The paper, which was recently submitted to ArXiv, an online repository of physics papers that is not peer-reviewed..." I'd wait until something like this is peer-reviewed too.
- lutusp 12y agoNot to mention what I'm about to -- that scientific theories are never proven, only disproven. You can always tell when a journalist is speaking about a topic for which a scientist might be a better source. As to "mathematically proven", it's an unfortunate juxtaposition of math (where things really can be conclusively proven) and physics (where they cannot be).
- davesque 12y agoRight. I was going to mention that as well, but didn't want to be too knit picky :).