<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my opinion, Hawking is a very good but not GREAT scientist. I am not convinced Hawking is anything like a Newton or Einstein. He's no slouch but I think Wheeler and Feynman to name just two people were better late 20th century physicists. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think his work on black hole evaporation fails to take important physics into account, with the result that there are many papers out there that try to 'save' black hole evaporation, and a far fewer papers (e.g. by Adam Helfer) that cast evaporation into doubt. This appeal to authority rather than reason reflects an extremely worrying trend in science today - consensus and authority play a larger role than ever at. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have comments on my site, ( <a href="https://gravityphysics.com" class="">https://gravityphysics.com</a> ) fire away!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--Tom</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 10, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Hodge John <<a href="mailto:jchodge@frontier.com" class="">jchodge@frontier.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_2999" class="">Tom</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3000" class="">WHY do you think Hawking is a GREAT (not just good) scientist? </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3001" class="">(The group challenged me about what other scientists (they are not scientists) think. I am planning to show them copies of replies.)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3002" class="">See "Universe according to the STOE"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3003" class="">IntellectualArchive, Vol.4, No. 6, P.6 , ISSN 1929-4700, Toronto, Jan. 2014</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3004" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3005" class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3006" class=""><a href="http://intellectualarchive.com/?link=item&id=1648" class="">http://intellectualarchive.com/?link=item&id=1648</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3007" class="">This model suggest black holes are reclaimed (evaporated) by implosive events that emit intense X-ray from the center of galaxies. Note: The derivation you use in your site assumes a black body type radiation. The X-ray radiation from the center of the Galaxy is without other bands - thus is mysterious. The STOE model is that black holes are dissolved into photons.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3008" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3009" class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3010" class="">Do you want comments on you site? I have many.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3011" class="">Hodge</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3012" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499704720181_3013" class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">If you no longer wish to receive communication from the Nature of Light and Particles General Discussion List at <a href="mailto:tandersen@nscir.ca" class="">tandersen@nscir.ca</a><br class=""><a href="<a href="http://lists.natureoflightandparticles.org/options.cgi/general-natureoflightandparticles.org/tandersen%40nscir.ca?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1" class="">http://lists.natureoflightandparticles.org/options.cgi/general-natureoflightandparticles.org/tandersen%40nscir.ca?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1</a>"><br class="">Click here to unsubscribe<br class=""></a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>