Hawking’s Bets
July 5, 2012 Leave a comment
The awesome, spectacular announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson yesterday was a crowning achievement in physics, and will hopefully lead to awesome new science.
It’ll also lead to less money in Stephen Hawking’s wallet. Hawking bet Michigan University’s Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs boson wouldn’t be found.
That reminded me a bit of a previous bet Hawking made, regarding black holes and information. Hawking lost that bet too.
I know that correlation doesn’t equal causation, but given this track record, if I were Stephen Hawking, I’d be finding someone to take a bet that they won’t discover a unified field theory in my lifetime.
I mean, it can’t hurt, right?
