clipka wrote:
> Doesn't QM say (at least in some interpretations) that a particle's properties
> are not determined until it interacts?

Some are, some aren't.  A photon is always positively charged whether you're 
measuring it or not. Only the properties that are orthogonal (i.e., 
"uncertain") are indeterminate.

> So assume a particle actually falls into a black hole; Is any information lost?

I'm told there is. :-)

> And so on.

Nice thought, but again, I personally am willing to take the word of people 
like Hawking over my own understanding of QM. :-)

> So as it seems, a lot of matter out there is actually just unused spare memory,
> ready to back-up information of other particles doomed to fall into black
> holes... the queer thing is, we don't know *which* particles are used and which
> aren't...

Cute.  Sounds like a good SF story.

Oh, wait, already did one. Permutation City by Greg Egan. Highly 
recommended. :-)

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