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Would this be one way that information would not be destroyed, at least from the reference frame of the outside observer?
Question if you don't mind. This "information being destroyed" thing. What do they mean by information? Isn't information a human construct? How is the universe supposed to know what information is?
I managed to confuse myself into a Zeno’s paradox situation with how black holes grow. This is really exotic space. Time dialation immediately outside of the event horizon would make any matter fall so slow that it would take millions of years of time for an observer to see that material cross the horizon.
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Would this be one way that information would not be destroyed, at least from the reference frame of the outside observer?
Question if you don't mind. This "information being destroyed" thing. What do they mean by information? Isn't information a human construct? How is the universe supposed to know what information is?
See especially the section on entropy.
I managed to confuse myself into a Zeno’s paradox situation with how black holes grow. This is really exotic space. Time dialation immediately outside of the event horizon would make any matter fall so slow that it would take millions of years of time for an observer to see that material cross the horizon.
If you are travelling with a probe towards the horizon though, you would be able to calculate your escape velocity, so you could tell if you are inside our outside the horizon.
Its kind of awkward if you think about it... its seems like causality has 2 versions after the horizon.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
We have people like string theorists thinking about higher dimensions in space. It occurred to me the other day when the dark matter article hit the front page that our equation for gravity works with three dimensions but those dimensions are uniform. I can turn an object with very little effort (literally without doing work) and it’s the same size from our perspective. How would it work if matter has more dimensions…
I've seen a couple of articles about this guy recently and they both struck me as weirdly credulous given the apparently complete lack of evidence supporting his theory and the fact that approximately no other scientists seem to find it credible.
They put it pretty bluntly in the article.
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Would this be one way that information would not be destroyed, at least from the reference frame of the outside observer?
Question if you don't mind. This "information being destroyed" thing. What do they mean by information? Isn't information a human construct? How is the universe supposed to know what information is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
That is an example of one way in which information can be exchanged for work.
We have people like string theorists thinking about higher dimensions in space. It occurred to me the other day when the dark matter article hit the front page that our equation for gravity works with three dimensions but those dimensions are uniform. I can turn an object with very little effort (literally without doing work) and it’s the same size from our perspective. How would it work if matter has more dimensions…