[jennyp]

Further evidence of the sheeple mentality in the scientific community; kind of a closed community, it seems, not unlike many religous communities (Amish, Shakers, etc.).

Did you ping Physicist to this, too?

I suspect that if I read Mitra's paper (and understood it), I'd find that his claims went way beyond simply saying that black holes don't destroy all information as they evaporate, which as I understand it is all that Hawking is now saying.

[unspun]

Did you ping Physicist to this, too? I suspect that if I read Mitra's paper (and understood it), I'd find that his claims went way beyond simply saying that black holes don't destroy all information as they evaporate, which as I understand it is all that Hawking is now saying.

Don't think I did, thanks. Would be interested in such contextualization of the subject matter -- also any analysis of the behavior of these scientists that explains their "shunning" and more general determinations not to include "unorthodox" theorists in their networks of acceptance and communication.

[MHGinTN]

I trust you got an answer for your query ... the intense magnetic field surrounding massive collapse objects refutes a ‘blackness’ status for Stephen’s objects.