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A Black Hole Paradox Where Relativity and Quantum Physics Meet – The Wire Science
We have made great advances in physics in the last 120 years or so, propelled by the twin revolutions of general relativity and quantum theory.
A simulated view of a black hole from the 2014 film ‘Interstellar’. Image: YouTube.
Of all the unsolved problems in physics, the black hole information paradox feels most like a whodunit. It’s a classic locked room mystery, and the victim in this case is quantum information.
Imagine a man goes inside a room and gets locked in. The police arrive at the scene and go in to find no trace of the man. Instead there are some bricks, a coffee machine and a dictionary (or any other set of random items)…
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