Once something has passed through the so-called event horizon that surrounds this region, it is doomed to a one-way trip.Dr Hawking's insight came from considering what happens in the empty space just outside the event horizon.
"There are some things that we don't like in the bill, but it's far better that something has passed rather than nothing," said Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union.
The gravity of a black hole is so intense that, once something has passed inside, it can never escape; not even light can get out.
And after that Iowa victory speech, people felt something had passed into our collective rear-view mirror, without actually saying what that something was.
Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
The dressing-room problems revealed by Cris, Juninho and Sidney Govou, who said that team spirit was poor and the side lacked leaders (at least they could agree on something), have passed after the players and Puel had it out together.
I can't hold that anger because it's something that has passed.
People who work at the site noticed something that has passed professional archaeologists by: traces of two vanished stones.
His lifelong dedication to the public good is clearly something he has passed along to his son.
"It is something that has passed down the family through many generations and, with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo this year, it is a wonderful opportunity to own something so directly related to such a historic event".
I know that pleasure will still be there in the new Stadium, but for those of us lucky enough to have known the House That Ruth Built, something special has passed So, so long, Scooter, so long, Joe, so long, Mick, and since I never got the chance to say it, so long, Dad.
