Andrew Strominger

They're able to store an arbitrary large amount of information.

So what we pointed out is, so what these things really do, one way of thinking of them is they rush off to the edges of the universe, spreading out all over the space.

It's like saying they rush off to the edge of the universe.

Right.

And that includes, if the interior of the black hole is not considered part of the universe, that includes the edge of the black hole.

So we need to set up our description of physics so that all the things that are conserved are still conserved in the way that we're describing them.

And that will not be true if we ignore these things.

We have to keep careful track of these things.

And people had been sloppy about that.

And we learned how to be very precise and careful about it.

Well, what we showed is that there's an error in the argument that all black holes are the same because they hadn't kept track of these very subtle things.

And whether or not this is the key error in the argument remains to be seen, or whether this is a technical point.

Hawking agreed with it, and he was sure that this was the... He was sure that this was... This was a critical error.

That this was the critical error, and that understanding this would...

would get us the whole story.

And that could well be.

Well, you know, I love the guy.

He's so passionate about physics.

He just, yeah, his oneness with physics

the problem and the, I mean, it's.