John VanSickle wrote:
> It could also be that what we experience (or measure, to be more 
> precise) as particles (photons, neutrons, etc.) are really just wrinkles 
> in space-time.  The book _Flatland_ comes to mind for some reason.

They are, basically. :-) That's what mass is: a wrinkle in spacetime.

> by no means implies that the information is destroyed. 

Except it does. What's the quantum spin of a black hole? How can you tell?

The problem is not that it falls into a black hole. We can still tell the 
mass and charge and angular momentum of everything that has fallen into a 
black hole. But the things you can't measure, like some of the quantum 
properties like color and spin, those get destroyed.

At least, as I understand it.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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