BTW, just a quick thought on the information paradoxon associated with black
holes:

Thinking about it, this is actually a non-issue.

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

So assume a particle actually falls into a black hole; Is any information lost?
No - because it can no longer interact with anything; so its properties were
still undetermined when it fell in. So there goes a memory storage location,
but it wasn't used.

Why wasn't it used? Well, because all information it had before was passed on to
the last particle it interacted with.

But each particle can only store so much bits of information, so where did the
information go *that* particle carried? Simple: There wasn't any in it. After
all, the only thing it interacted with was a particle that is lost, so we have
no way of checking how it influenced that particle; so those properties cannot
be (indirectly) observed either - and were hence still undefined when it
interacted.

And so on.

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...

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