John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> The notion of a black hole being a singularity is probably a violation 
> of QM, although I am inclined to believe that this is not the case.  But 
> the fact that information cannot be retrieved (as from a black hole, 
> once the media has passed within the event horizon) by no means implies 
> that the information is destroyed.  Sort of like my personnel records in 
> the military.  For a brief time nobody could find them, but they still 
> existed.

  The so-called "no-hair theorem" is related to exactly that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem

  Famously Stephen Hawking lost a bet because of changing his opinion on
whether the information is permanently lost in a black hole or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93Hawking%E2%80%93Preskill_bet

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                                                          - Warp

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