{"id":223,"date":"2005-07-18T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T01:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-07-18T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T01:18:27","slug":"hawking-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Hawking Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been almost exactly a year since Hawking gave a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000057.html\">talk in Dublin<\/A> claiming to have found a resolution of the black hole information paradox.  Tonight a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0507171\">preprint<\/A> giving some details of his argument has appeared.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave to the quantum gravity experts the evaluation of exactly how convincing Hawking&#8217;s argument is.  It is based on using the Euclidean quantum gravity framework, which Hawking refers to as &#8220;the only sane way to do quantum gravity non-perturbatively&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve always been fond of the idea that you have to think about QFTs using a Euclidean signature for the background, so I wouldn&#8217;t argue with him about this point, but I assume others will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been almost exactly a year since Hawking gave a talk in Dublin claiming to have found a resolution of the black hole information paradox. Tonight a preprint giving some details of his argument has appeared. I&#8217;ll leave to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}