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English term or phrase:
armor
English answer:
"chink in the armor" = a weakness/hole in the protective cover
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Jenni Lukac (X)
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Nothing—neither light nor information—is fleet enough to emerge from the hole’s intense gravitational clutches. Hawking discovered a quantum chink in this armor in 1974, when he deduced that black holes should in fact emit a random trickle of particles and radiation (now called Hawking radiation)
Does this armor mean Coulomb barrier?
Does this armor mean Coulomb barrier?
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| 4 +1 | "chink in the armor" = a weakness/hole in the protective cover |
Jenni Lukac (X)
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| 4 | a chink in the armor= a vulnerable area |
Catharine Cellier-Smart
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| 4 | event horizon |
Henk Sanderson
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"chink in the armor" = a weakness/hole in the protective cover
I hope this helps " a chink in the armor" refers to a weakness or hole in a medieval knight's suit of armor. (In UK English armour).
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Note added at 9 mins (2013-03-13 13:42:12 GMT)
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If this refers to an argument or theory, it would be a weak point in the theory or argument.
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Note added at 9 mins (2013-03-13 13:42:12 GMT)
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If this refers to an argument or theory, it would be a weak point in the theory or argument.
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a chink in the armor= a vulnerable area
A chink in the armo(u)r is a idiomatic expression referring to an area or point that is vulnerable (traditionally the place where a enemy's weapons could touch a soldier wearing armo(u)r.
The chink here refers to a vulnerable spot in the hole’s gravitational clutches.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chink_in_one's_armor
The chink here refers to a vulnerable spot in the hole’s gravitational clutches.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chink_in_one's_armor
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event horizon
armor in this sentence refers to the event horizon of the black hole that, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, no particle or radiation can cross again back out once they have entered into the black hole. The event horizon is the surface at which the gravitational force is large enough to keep everything in, which makes it comparable to a protective cover. The quantum chink then does not refer to a certain place in the cover that is weak, but rather to the event horizon being permeable to particles and radiation due to quantum effects (Hawking radiation).
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See perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation