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Post by abacus9900 on Apr 15, 2011 15:03:34 GMT 1
According to quantum theory information cannot disappear from the universe, however, what would happen if you dropped a copy of Encyclopedia Britannica down a Black Hole? Would the information disappear forever from the universe?
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Post by speakertoanimals on Apr 15, 2011 15:50:37 GMT 1
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Post by skeptic on Dec 31, 2011 15:36:30 GMT 1
Information? WTH is information?
As time goes on our universe becomes ever more complex with new information coming about all the time, like the Encyclopedia Britannica.
To the best of our knowledge, if you drop something into a black hole it is in there forever.
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Post by striker16 on Dec 31, 2011 22:43:22 GMT 1
Information? WTH is information? As time goes on our universe becomes ever more complex with new information coming about all the time, like the Encyclopedia Britannica. To the best of our knowledge, if you drop something into a black hole it is in there forever. Hawking suggested that in a black hole that evaporates all the information is lost. He has now admitted he is probably wrong and that information cannot be lost in a black hole. |
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Post by skeptic on Jan 1, 2012 11:29:39 GMT 1
Hawking radiation is nonsense. Here is the idea:
You have a steep hill a thousand miles long. At the 750 mile mark from the bottom, you place two balls. One rolls downhill (into the black hole) and the other rolls uphill (and escapes the black hole).
Information is just complexity and increasing complexity is how the universe works with hydrogen becoming planets and later stars and later life.
The problem with Hawking is that he is seen as an infallible genius when even he admits he is wrong at times. He gave up on the idea of a singularity (as in the big bang) yet most still believe in it. And now as you say he is falling out of love with "radiation" named after him.
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