Archive of entries posted on 31st August 2021

Tuesday Night Open Thread: That Was Like Five Decades Ago, Man

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This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
quantamagazine.org | August 23, 2021 | Natalie Wolchover

The five-decade-old paradox — long thought key to linking quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity — is falling to a new generation of thinkers. Netta Engelhardt is leading the way.

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So do evaporating black holes really destroy information, meaning unitarity is not a true principle of nature? Or does information escape as a black hole evaporates? Solving the information paradox quickly came to be seen as a route to discovering the true, quantum theory of gravity, which general relativity approximates well everywhere except black holes.

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

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Biden Orders SWAT Units & Feds To Evacuate Nakatomi Plaza and California, and Leave Weapons Behind

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“Those People Had Every Chance To Leave Before Christmas Began”

Says He Trusts Hans Gruber To Peacefully Release Hostages

Provides Gruber with John McClane’s identity, associates, and last known location

Discovers He Is No Longer Welcome to the Party

Claims “No One Could Have Done Better,” because “I Inherited McClane’s Plan”

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Well, I Don’t Mind Paying, As Long As They’re Honest As To Where the Money Is Going

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HHS Diverting Millions in Funding Marked for Vaccine Efforts to Housing Migrant Children
Fox News | 8/27/21 | Adam Shaw

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has notified Congress that it will transfer an additional $589 million, some of which comes from funding marked for COVID-19 vaccination efforts, to its program to shelter unaccompanied migrant children who have entered the U.S. at the southern border — part of more than $4 billion that has been diverted to the program this year.

HHS informed Congress that it is diverting $225 million in National Institute of Health (NIH) funding that was part of the December COVID-19 relief bill to the unaccompanied children (UAC) program, as well as $364 million in HHS funding that was passed as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a congressional source told Fox News. Data shared with Fox News confirms that source’s account.

Of the ARP funding, $187.5 million had been marked for the Centers for Disease Control for “vaccine planning, distribution, monitoring and tracking” and an additional $25 million for “vaccine confidence activities.”

Meanwhile $151 million of the diverted funding had been tagged for the “Supply Chain for Vaccines, Therapeutics and Medical Supplies.”

In other news, the funds sequestered under the “For The Puppies Act” of 2021 have been diverted to the Congressional Striptease Junket in St. Bart’s of 2021.

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