This is a short commentary on the documentary, The Hawking Paradox, which I Tivo’d on Sunday, 22Oct06 on the Science Channel. I want to clarify that I am a pastor, not a physicist. Perhaps we could get some comments from Sojourn’s resident physicist regarding Stephen Hawking and some of the theories he has proposed. I would like to see a running commentary started.

Stephen Hawking is one of the note-worthy physicists of the twentieth century. In 1975, he gave a foundation-shattering claim to the scientific world. Hawking introduced the Black Hole Information Paradox. This theory claimed that black holes could completely destroy matter, and therefore, information.