[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LibWhacker.

Polchinski’s calculations, carried out with two of his students -- Ahmed Almheiri and James Sully -- and fellow string theorist Donald Marolf at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), were telling a different story1. In their account, quantum effects would turn the event horizon into a seething maelstrom of particles. Anyone who fell into it would hit a wall of fire and be burned to a crisp in an instant. The team’s verdict, published in July 2012, shocked the physics community. Such firewalls would violate a foundational tenet of physics that was first articulated almost a century ago by Albert Einstein, who used it as the basis of general relativity, his theory of gravity.

Einstein? What a loser. ;')

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LOL.

First it was Aristotle.
Then he got displaced by Galileo and Copernicus.

Then it was Newton.

But he got outpaced by Einstein.

And we though Einstein settled things.
But then came these guys and their theory of strings!
These new theories have everyone talking
And good grief, what has become of Stephen Hawking?