In a message dated 1/20/02 2:19:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV
writes:
<< This posting, apparently cribbed from the magazine "New Scientist"
contains enough inaccurate "spin" to be worthy of an Anderson accountant.
Here is the abstract from the actual paper (which, at 4 pp., isn't much
longer than the extravagant posting):
See gr-qc/0109035 in the ArXiV. I am not copying the original
posting. >>
Sorry about all the spin Jack. I wasn't aware that Mazur and Mottola had
submitted an abstract to the ArXiv. Nevertheless the possibility, however
remote, that Black holes may not exist might be viewed as fairly interesting
news. Important ideas like Hawking radiation, Unruh effect and the
Holographic principal would be in jeopardy not to mention the far more
speculative ideas of Smolin. I hope there will be a more detailed reaction to
this news than a comment on the spin content of what I posted, however
deserved that was.