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6 Sep 2024 09:16:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Physics, relativity, quantum, etc.  
From: nemesis
Date: 19 Jan 2009 14:18:25
Message: <4974d201@news.povray.org>
Warp escreveu:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I thought Warp might like seeing this, since he has talked about relativity 
>> and warped space time and (I think) dark matter here before.
> 
>>
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925423.600-three-cosmic-enigmas-one-audacious-answer.html
> 
> "One such problem arises from the idea that once matter crosses a
> black hole's event horizon - the point beyond which not even light can
> escape - it will be destroyed by the space-time "singularity" at the
> centre of the black hole. Because information about the matter is lost
> forever, this conflicts with the laws of quantum mechanics, which
> state that information can never disappear from the universe."
> 
>   General relativity predicts one thing, quantum mechanics another. Why
> must GR be wrong and QM right? Why couldn't it be the other way around?

Besides, I thought Hawking's radiation coming from blackholes explained 
that no information is lost or am I lost here? :/

Well, I'm still munching the possibility of being nothing more than a 
hologram in a credit card... :P


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