HUH?

Okay so a friend sent me part of Stephen Hawking's explanation of the new theory on information escaping from black holes:

"The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can
be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued
to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all
topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the
initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information
is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way
the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never
forms, just an apparent horizon."

Oh, why, yes Stephen, now it all makes perfect sense!
I can't wait until he writes his next book though, he's such a P-I-M-P.

Hey, PIMP can stand for "Physically Immobile Master of Physics"!

God help me.