We watched this show the other night called The Hawking Paradox (Dan's thoughts). Basically, it was about Hawking trying to reconcile the ideas that black holes destroy stuff utterly, and information can never be utterly destroyed.
His final solution was this:
When information is destroyed in a black hole, there are many other alternate universes where the information is still intact - because there isn't a black hole in that spot. If you average all the results from all parallel universes, the problem of destroyed information cancels out.
I call "bull$*@#!" That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's tantamount to saying "No, see, if you just pretend the black hole isn't there, then there's no problem! See?" ...crickets chirping.
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As per the mysterious Doctor J:
Yeah, until we have a theory of quantum gravity, I wouldn't believe much of anything anyone says about quantum states near the event horizon. The cooler idea that you might have heard is that all the information is nicely preserved inside the black hole, and when the black hole evaporates down to the singularity (by virtue of Hawking radiation) and disappears, it leaves a single remnant particle behind, like a black hole turd, that somehow contains all the lost information. He who acquires this mythic particle shall be known as the Knower of Things Forgot, and his power and holdings shall be vast.
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