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“Hawking radiation originates in quantum jitters of fields near the horizon of black holes. These jitters give rise to particle-antiparticle pairs. Whenever the antiparticle falls into the black hole, its partner particle can escape into the distant universe, where it shows up as Hawking radiation emitted by the hole...despite their distance the pairs of particles and antiparticles maintain a quantum mechanical link”
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Al Owski
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“Even though much remains to be learned before we will be able to recount a black hole's history by reading its ashes—the Hawking radiation-many theorists now agree that there is no longer a real paradox. Moreover, I'd argue that this development is something entirely different. Moving from a single spacetime to emergent spacetimes has truly foundational implications.”
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Al Owski
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“Einstein showed that gravity is a manifestation of warped spacetime. Holography goes further and postulates that warped spacetime is woven from quantum entanglement.”
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Al Owski
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“entanglement between the inside and the outside of an evaporating black hole can be thought of as generating a wormhole stretching across the horizon. It is as if the particles of Hawking radiation together with their antiparticle partners behind the horizon collectively sew their own space-time bridge, transforming an old black hole from a hermit kingdom into sort of drive-through.”
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Al Owski
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“a quantum mechanical link... Physicists say they remain "entangled." The entanglement means that if you measure the emitted radiation on its own, it looks like random thermal radiation. But if one were able to consider the members of the pairs jointly, one would find that they do contain information encoded in fine correlations that interlink their individual properties.”
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Al Owski
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“IT WOULD TAKE much more work in Maldacena's holographic laboratory, and the exploration of many more blind alleys, before theorists finally began to discern the escape route out of an old black hole. As a matter of fact, in the years since Stephen's passing, a new generation of black hole physicists, steeped in holography, have realized that perhaps wormholes are involved.”
— 18 hours, 17 min ago
Al Owski
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“"The moment we say that a black hole is described by Schwarzschild's geometry we have an information loss problem," Stephen told his audience in Dublin. "However, information about the exact state is preserved in a different geometry. The confusion and paradox arose because we thought classically, in terms of a single objective spacetime. But Feynman's sum over geometries allows it to be both geometries at once."”
— Dec 28, 2025 05:44AM
Al Owski
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“if determinism, the probabilistic predictability of the universe on the basis of scientific laws, were to break down in the presence of black holes, how could we be sure it doesn't break down in other situations? How could we be sure of our own history, and our memories? "The past tells us who we are" Stephen noted pointedly. "Without it, we lose our identity." ”
— Dec 27, 2025 05:47AM
Al Owski
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“As such the black-hole information paradox became a beacon in the search for a unified theory. Physicists felt that if they could disentangle Hawking's knot and understand what happens to the hidden information when black holes cease to be, they'd be well on their way to marrying the principles of relativity and quantum theory into a single coherent framework.”
— Dec 27, 2025 05:44AM
Al Owski
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“The paradox of the fate of information locked inside evaporating black holes became the most vexing puzzle in theoretical physics of the late twentieth century, bedeviling not one but two generations of physicists. It is in some ways the contemporary analogue of the Mercury anomaly in the nineteenth century, the wobble in Mercury's orbit that defied Newton's theory.”
— Dec 27, 2025 05:43AM
Al Owski
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“This was the first glimmer of holography in modern physics: The storage capacity of black holes isn't determined by their interior volume but by the area of their horizon surface. It is as if black holes do not have an interior but are holograms.”
— Dec 26, 2025 03:55PM
