John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmail com> 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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