The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

[Seldom Bucket]

In a series of breakthrough papers, theoretical physicists have come tantalizingly close to resolving the black hole information paradox that has entranced and bedeviled them for nearly 50 years. Information, they now say with confidence, does escape a black hole. If you jump into one, you will not be gone for good. Particle by particle, the information needed to reconstitute your body will reemerge. Most physicists have long assumed it would; that was the upshot of string theory, their leading candidate for a unified theory of nature. But the new calculations, though inspired by string theory, stand on their own, with nary a string in sight. Information gets out through the workings of gravity itself — just ordinary gravity with a single layer of quantum effects.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-black-hole-information-paradox-comes-to-an-end-20201029/

 

[Nicholas]

Particle by particle, the information needed to reconstitute your body will reemerge.

I suspect that this is an oversimplification.

 

[satanboy]

Like so?

 

[Nicholas]

Not even a damaged object, I suspect, More like a certain amount of a mixture of atoms and/or subatomic particles and bursts of X and Gamma radiation.

Bedtime reading: Hawking Radiation

I'm not a physicist, so don't quote me on this.

 

[Jings]

Beam me up, Scotty!