By ET

I remember participating a HBS graduation party (TPMG, a 3-month executive training program). Two British graduates hosted the party and they used all kinds of funny remarks (they are so different from American language…) to bring the party to be one of the most impressive one I’ve ever participated.

Steven Hawking made a bet with an American physicist about a theory (Black holes do not obliterate information about things which fall into them, but mangle information instead. ). The bet was made with John Preskill in 1997. Earlier this year, he agreed that he lost the bet, the winner of the bet is supposed get a huge book from the loser. “John is all American, so naturally he wants an encyclopaedia of baseball,” said Hawking. “I had great difficulty in finding one over here, so I offered him an encyclopaedia of cricket, as an alternative, but John wouldn’t be persuaded of the superiority of cricket.”

By ET This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 at 11:49 pm and is filed under General, Random Thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.