[davesque]

From the article:

"Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven that quantum effects are strong enough to stop the formation of black holes..."

If I'm not mistaken, Mersini-Houghton's work has just hit the scene. It still has to be vetted by the larger community before we could say that anything's been "proven."

[lutusp]

Not to mention what I'm about to -- that scientific theories are never proven, only disproven. You can always tell when a journalist is speaking about a topic for which a scientist might be a better source.

As to "mathematically proven", it's an unfortunate juxtaposition of math (where things really can be conclusively proven) and physics (where they cannot be).

[davesque]

Right. I was going to mention that as well, but didn't want to be too knit picky :).

[ihuman]

Also from the article:

"The paper, which was recently submitted to ArXiv, an online repository of physics papers that is not peer-reviewed..."

I'd wait until something like this is peer-reviewed too.