Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet
WAGER OVER THE SOLUTION TO THE BLACK HOLE INFORMATION PARADOX
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The Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet was a public bet on the outcome of the black hole information paradox made in 1997 by physics theorists Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking on the one side, and John Preskill on the other, according to the document they signed 6 February 1997, as shown in Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell.