28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Disagreement of Stephen Hawking
When Hawking argued that black holes are not completely black, if you take quantum mechanics into account, they radiate, how did that strike you? I can tell you exactly what happened. You see, I think I was away from Cambridge. So I was working in Cambridge at the time. But Dennis Sharma, who is a great friend of mine and I learned a lot of cosmology from, and he was Stephen Hawking's supervisor. He knew all the physics that was going around. It didn't take me long to come to the conclusion that it was probably right.
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