Physicist Stephen Hawking made a splash this week when he announced that he had solved a vexing conundrum that had puzzled generations of leading physicists -- including the 73-year-old scientific superstar himself -- for the better part of a half-century.
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Sadly, Jacob Bekenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bekenstein) died about a week ago, and so didn’t see this, or his commentary would have been great to hear as well.