One of the great controversies of modern physics, Stephen Hawking’s ‘black hole paradox’, considers what happens to the information contained in anything dropped into a black hole. The matter disappears from our universe; the black hole increases in mass, but that tells us nothing about the nature of what has gone in; it, and the… Continue reading Solving the Hawking paradox and conserving information
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Albert’s imagination and the significance of information
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination (Albert Einstein) As you no doubt know, this year marks the hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, first presented by him in 1915 to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Even among physics enthusiasts, general relativity has a daunting reputation, largely because of its… Continue reading Albert’s imagination and the significance of information
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