Fresh from it's win over SR and the discovery of the Higgs QM is picking a fight with big daddy of them all GR.
It started innocently enough with a paper by Joe Polchinski, Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf and James Sully called "Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?"
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.3123.pdfAt first I expected that there would be an easy explaination but it appears that the paper does indeed hold a very big paradox the sort that will crunch one of the major tenants of science.
The layman discussion is presented in an article from scientific america and discovery
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...ical-physicistshttp://news.discovery.com/space/black-hole-drama-firewalls-121226.htmThis discussion is the hot and must discuss thing in physics at the moment everyone is lining up on different sides and there is going to be some bruised egos.