[geeks] Funny

[Ken Hansen]

Don't forget Feyneman (sp) - another funny/intersting/insightful =
scientist! (although I find myself creeped out by his man servant that =
has taken up pushing his legacy)...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: joshua d boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:30 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: [geeks] Funny


I'm reading a Stephen Hawking lecture.  He is pretty interesting to
read. And, he has some funny parts.

On Black Holes:
To Americans, it suggested something dark and mysterious, while to the
British, there was the added resonance of the Black Hole of Calcutta. =
But
the French, being French, saw a more risqu=E9 meaning. For years, they
resisted the name, trou noir, claiming it was obscene.=20

Then later:
You can throw television sets, diamond rings, or even your worst =
enemies
into a black hole, and all the black hole will remember, is the total
mass, and the state of rotation. John Wheeler called this, 'A Black =
Hole
Has No Hair.' To the French, this just confirmed their suspicions.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/public/dice.html

I'm going to have to consider buying his book now.
--=20
Joshua D. Boyd
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