On the very year the documentary was released, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".
Yet the name of Penrose is not to be heard once in that movie. And the director (Peter Galison) is not the type to be ill-informed.
On the other side, it also struck me that the Nobel committee waited until the death of Hawking to award a prize for black holes.
Anyone has an insider's view on that?
Yet the name of Penrose is not to be heard once in that movie. And the director (Peter Galison) is not the type to be ill-informed.
On the other side, it also struck me that the Nobel committee waited until the death of Hawking to award a prize for black holes.
Anyone has an insider's view on that?