Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'

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The defining characteristic of a black hole may have to give, if the two pillars of modern physics — general relativity and quantum theory — are both correct.

 

Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” — at least not in the sense we usually imagine — would probably be dismissed as cranks. But when the call to redefine these cosmic crunchers comes from Stephen Hawking, it’s worth taking notice. In a paper posted online, the physicist, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the creators of modern black-hole theory, does away with the notion of an event horizon, the invisible boundary thought to shroud every black hole, beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.

Rumah dijanjikan Rahman Dahlan belum dapat

Oleh Jurle Sagayong

KOTA BELUD : Kira-kira tiga tahun lalu sebuah keluarga daif di Kampung Kelawat dekat sini dilawati ahli parlimen Kota Belud, Abdul Rahman Dahlan apabila salah seorang anak dalam keluarga besar berkenaan menjadi pelajar terbaik SPM sebuah sekolah di daerah ini walaupun dalam keadaan serba kekurangan.

Pelajar berkenaan, Syevesther Liew, 19, kini pelajar tahun pertama Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) namun keluarganya dan neneknya masih belum mendapat rumah yang dijanjikan Abdul Rahman, kini Menteri Perumahan, Kesejahteraan Bandar dan Kerajaan Tempatan Persekutuan.

History and constitutional guarantee allow Christians to use ‘Allah’, say law experts

Two Malaysian academics have come out in support of Christians in the country on their right to use the word "Allah" in their religious practices amid Putrajaya's admission that states can regulate such activities.

Universiti Malaya law professor Dr Azmi Shahrom (pic) and former International Islamic University law lecturer Dr Abdul Aziz Bari went on record to support such rights when they affirmed affidavits in support of a judicial review application by a Sarawakian Christian, Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill, against the home minister.

Clear my name – Kangkong

 Dear Malaysians,

I am writing to you to ask for your help to clear my name. In recent days my name has been stained by associating me with a failed leader and thus become a derogatory word. A by-word. I have become infamous.

I want to appeal to your good nature and kindness to disassociate me from this person and restore to me my dignity.

Projek kelapa pandan di Kota Belud gagal?

Oleh Nuraniz Ghaus

KOTA BELUD : Satu projek tanaman kelapa pandan seluas 500 ekar di Kota Belud kini bakal berhadapan skandal pertanian ekoran projek itu menemui jalan buntu dan sudah ada pihak mula bimbang ia bakal memberi kesan negatif lagi kepada pihak kerajaan.

Projek tanaman kelapa pandan di Skim Bokilong di Kampung Gaur dekat sini itu dikatakan dibiayai RM1 juta oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan dan sepatutnya sudah mula memberi pendapatan kepada kira-kira 90 peserta yang terdiri daripada penduduk kampung.

Orang Islam dan Kristian adalah bersaudara

KOTA BELUD : Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Datuk Anwar Ibrahim, berkata umat Kristian dan umat Islam adalah bersaudara dan tidak harus bergaduh sesama mereka demi agama masing-masing.

Anwar yang juga Ketua Pembangkang  berkata beliau bukan membawa ajaran baru apatah lagi agama baru, sebaliknya khalifah keempat Islam, Saiyidina Ali Ibn Talib, yang menyatakan demikian kepada umat Islam.

Sabah Govt Needs to be Assertive in SESB

Kota Kinabalu:    “The Sabahgovernment needs to act as the government of the people in Sabah and be assertive in SESB.   As shown in the aftermath of the state-wide fiasco affecting 511,611 consumers, the government cannot and should no longer play a passive role on its 20% shareholding in SESB” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief in response to SESB’s excuse for the blackout and refusal to compensate the Sabah and Labuan consumers.

Sabahans seek Judicial Review on Herald seizure

Joe Fernandez

KOTA KINABALU : Two Church-going Sabahans, both Roman Catholics, on Fri filed an ex-parte Application for Leave at the High Court in Kota Kinabalu to file a Judicial Review to obtain an Order of Certiorari (squash) against the decision of a Malaysian Government agency/agencies to seize 2,000 copies of the Herald, a Church weekly, on Sat 26 Oct last year at Kota Kinabalu International Airport.

The Application was filed under Order 53 Rule 3(2) of the Rules of the High Court 2012 by activist Daniel John Jambun, one of the Applicants, Acting in Person.

I’m Catholic and I won’t use ‘Allah’. Are you happy now?

Francis Paul Siah

Executive Editor

I’m a Catholic and a Sarawakian but I reside in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. On the “Allah” issue, what should I do or rather, where do I stand?

I have been told that Christians and other non-Muslims can use “Allah” to refer to God in Sarawak and Sabah but not in Malaya. I’m not sure whether that is a court ruling, a royal decree or just a political decision.

We were tricked into converting to Islam

The Protestant Church of Sabah church in Kampung Layung Maliau has been packed since the alleged conversion incident. – The Malaysian Insider pic, January 20, 2014.The small, white, nondescript wooden Protestant Church in Sabah (PCS) church in the Dusun village of Layung Maliau, in Sabah's remote Pitas district, was again packed for its Sunday service yesterday.

It has been filled to the brim since the first Sunday of 2014.