Am 26.06.2014 09:23, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>>> I posit that sanity obeys a similar conservation principle. When I work
>>> on a really old piece of code, as my work progresses the code becomes
>>> more sane - but I become less sane...
>>
>> Makes sense; after all, according to quantum mechanics there /is/ such a
>> thing as conservation of information...
>>
>> (... and it appears that black holes violate this law by swallowing
>> information, so yes, sanity in the universe is slowly declining...)
>
> Isn't that why Hawking radiation was invented?

No, although it was certainly a smart move :)

Hawking radiation is a necessary consequence of the insane idea that the 
vacuum of space-time is filled with virtual particle pairs that keep 
popping into and out of existence; if one such pair is forever torn 
apart by a nearby black hole, the surviving particle wanders the 
universe aimlessly in grief and woe, calling itself Hawking radiation 
henceforth, while its beloved partner, in an act of desperate madness, 
takes revenge on the black hole in a suicidal run, destructively 
recombining with it instead of with the escapee.

Whether the escapee is able to carry messages from the poor guys trapped 
inside the black hole is a hairy (or bald) question that is still up for 
debate, and was the subject of an insane bet by Hawking himself. 
("Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet")

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