black hole information paradox

What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

by Marcus Du Sautoy  · 18 May 2016

untangle this radiation and retrieve information about everything that disappears behind the event horizon. The puzzle of what happens to the information is called the black hole information paradox. In 1997 Hawking took out another bet, and this time Kip Thorne sided with him. Their bet was with Caltech theoretical physicist John Preskill. They

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patterns of information in the brain – perhaps something close to what Tononi is advocating – then some argue that information can theoretically always be reconstructed. The black hole information paradox relates to the question of whether information is lost when things disappear in a black hole. But provided you avoid the black hole crematorium, the

Stephen Hawking

by Leonard Mlodinow  · 8 Sep 2020  · 209pp  · 68,587 words

a bit of matter becomes part of a black hole that later vanishes through the process of Hawking radiation. The issue is often called the black hole information paradox. Due to Stephen’s reputation, his bet about it generated headlines around the world and added to a revival of interest in the issue among

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has been violated. The mathematics of quantum theory says that can’t happen, but Stephen’s black hole theory says it does. That’s the black hole information paradox. According to Stephen’s theory, there’s a point at which the quantum mechanical prescription for tracing the evolution of systems must break down. Strangely

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his immortal ideas and his portrait on the wall. * * * In 2004, when Stephen decided that he’d resolved the issue of his bet on the black hole information paradox, he chose to present his ideas at the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation. Though it had taken him seven years to reach

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick  · 1 Mar 2011  · 855pp  · 178,507 words

a History of Alphabeticization in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Brussels: Latomus, 1967. Danielsson, Ulf H., and Marcelo Schiffer. “Quantum Mechanics, Common Sense, and the Black Hole Information Paradox.” Physical Review D 48, no. 10 (1993): 4779–84. Darrow, Karl K. “Entropy.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 87, no. 5 (1944): 365–67