The "information loss paradox" in black holes—a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years—may not exist.
Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. Burn a book, and you could theoretically do the same. But send information into a black hole, and it's lost forever.
That's what some physicists have argued for years: That black holes are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in information and then evaporate without leaving behind any clues as to what they once contained.
But new research shows that this perspective may not be correct.
"According to our work, information isn't lost once it enters a black hole," says Dejan Stojkovic, PhD, associate professor of physics at the University at Buffalo. "It doesn't just disappear."
Stojkovic's new study, "Radiation from a Collapsing Object is Manifestly Unitary," appeared on March 17 in Physical Review Letters, with UB PhD student Anshul Saini as co-author.
The paper outlines how interactions between particles emitted by a black hole can reveal information about what lies within, such as characteristics of the object that formed the black hole to begin with, and characteristics of the matter and energy drawn inside.
This is an important discovery, Stojkovic says, because even physicists who believed information was not lost in black holes have struggled to show, mathematically, how this happens. His new paper presents explicit calculations demonstrating how information is preserved, he says.
The research marks a significant step toward solving the "information loss paradox," a problem that has plagued physics for almost 40 years, since Stephen Hawking first proposed that black holes could radiate energy and evaporate over time. This posed a huge problem for the field of physics because it meant that information inside a black hole could be permanently lost when the black hole disappeared—a violation of quantum mechanics, which states that information must be conserved.
Information hidden in particle interactions
In the 1970s, Hawking proposed that black holes were capable of radiating particles, and that the energy lost through this process would cause the black holes to shrink and eventually disappear. Hawking further concluded that the particles emitted by a black hole would provide no clues about what lay inside, meaning that any information held within a black hole would be completely lost once the entity evaporated.
Though Hawking later said he was wrong and that information could escape from black holes, the subject of whether and how it's possible to recover information from a black hole has remained a topic of debate.
Stojkovic and Saini's new paper helps to clarify the story.
Instead of looking only at the particles a black hole emits, the study also takes into account the subtle interactions between the particles. By doing so, the research finds that it is possible for an observer standing outside of a black hole to recover information about what lies within.
Interactions between particles can range from gravitational attraction to the exchange of mediators like photons between particles. Such "correlations" have long been known to exist, but many scientists discounted them as unimportant in the past.
"These correlations were often ignored in related calculations since they were thought to be small and not capable of making a significant difference," Stojkovic says. "Our explicit calculations show that though the correlations start off very small, they grow in time and become large enough to change the outcome."
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erholp
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 02, 2015viko_mx
1 / 5 (17) Apr 02, 2015viko_mx
1 / 5 (17) Apr 02, 2015jerry_bushman_7
1 / 5 (15) Apr 02, 2015viko_mx
1 / 5 (12) Apr 02, 2015Dethe
1 / 5 (6) Apr 02, 2015gkam
3 / 5 (7) Apr 02, 2015Stylz
3.3 / 5 (3) Apr 02, 2015fourinfinities
3.7 / 5 (3) Apr 02, 2015ian_miller
4.7 / 5 (3) Apr 02, 2015OceanDeep
4 / 5 (5) Apr 02, 2015Also, don't laws of thermodynamics mean that information can't remain intact over time?
Also, is it not possible that the gravitational distortions near the black hole but not in it also "absorb" some of this information in the form of energy?
I just don't understand the distinction between intelligible data being lost (as in a book) and stuff going into a black hole. I mean, sure the book ashes are not lost, but any meaning in the book is gone forever as far as I know.
Captain Stumpy
4 / 5 (8) Apr 02, 2015try reading up a little here: https://en.wikipe..._paradox
if that doesn't help, try reading this link: http://physicswor...mplified
Hope that helps
tommo
5 / 5 (1) Apr 03, 2015Thus the thesis seems on solid grounds, "Our explicit calculations show that though the correlations start off very small, they grow in time and become large enough to change the outcome.".
Very small is not to be ignored!!! ...
allergg
1 / 5 (8) Apr 03, 2015AGreatWhopper
3.5 / 5 (6) Apr 03, 2015I think the author is using obtuse quantum physics language in what appears to be classical physics statements, hence talking about "information" in a way that really means "matter/energy". The example with burning the book isn't right even in the QM world, though, so one has to read the original article to get a clue about what is actually meant.
RhoidSlayer
2 / 5 (1) Apr 03, 2015information is a state of order in energy or matter .
the 2nd law of thermodynamics tells you what happens to information .
if the universe is closed , if it is open , and for those ranges in between .
space is a black hole populated by black holes .
and the universe exists between the event horizon of one and the event horizons of the others .
Accata
1.8 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015Kedas
5 / 5 (2) Apr 03, 2015There should be.
Doug_Huffman
5 / 5 (1) Apr 03, 2015Neodim
5 / 5 (1) Apr 03, 2015vic1248
5 / 5 (1) Apr 03, 2015Stephen Hawking theorized that system data in the "Wave Function" does escape Black Holes in the form of radiation energy at the "Event Horizon." Even that does not solve the problem. Many Theoretical Physicists postulate that such system data in the form of radiation energy at the "Event Horizon" is only scrambled data and irrecoverable to the original "Wave Function." Most scientists believe Einstein's postulation.
Benni
2.1 / 5 (7) Apr 03, 2015How about if you go to a site where the entire thesis of General Relativity is set forth, find the section to which you are making reference & Copy & Paste the words from GR which you think are the words of GR making reference to BHs.
I have studied in great detail Einsteins' GR & have never come across anything close to what you're talking about. The Einstein Field Equations set forth ONLY the laws of gravity via which Schwarzchild set up his calculations for the SCHWARZCHILD RADIUS from which BHs are predicted to exist based on radius & mass.
So, I'll say it again, produce a link to that part of GR that via which you think Einstein predicted BHs, then explain to us how that section of GR is predictive of BHs.
Accata
1.8 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015Accata
1.8 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015Accata
1.8 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015This situation will radically change, if we consider the extradimensions, for example - but the vanilla formulation of general relativity is four dimensional only and it doesn't consider the extradimensions and it cannot prohibit the collapse of massive objects.
Which also means, that every quasistable massive body inside of our Universe (including the Earth or just You) violates the general relativity. The only reason, why you will not collapse into singularity according to general relativity are the hyperdimensional / quantum mechanical effects, which are prohibiting it.
carlitos1327
4.7 / 5 (14) Apr 03, 2015Black holes can't spin at super luminal speeds because nothing with rest mass is allowed by special relativity to exceed the speed of light.
Black holes are black bodies that emit heat and therefore "radiate" electromagnetism and therefore are allowed by the laws of physics to evaporate via Hawking radiation.
Black holes do exist, their mass signatures are measured precisely, their gravitational affects on stars orbiting around them have been observed, the accretion disks of matter surrounding their event horizons have been imaged in the infrared spectrum and the math supporting their existence has been well understood for nearly a century.
Read up on facts supporting the phenomenon before you make false and erroneous statements about subject matter that you fail to comprehend.
Benni
2.1 / 5 (7) Apr 03, 2015Please Accata, the above is what you specifically stated was contained in Einsteins' GR, then you went off the wall & inserted others into the discussion whose work came long after Einstein published GR. Now look, we're talking ONLY about GR here, everything else is a side issue including discussions of Schwarzchild radii & the others you named. Again, produce the words/equations of the GR section that predict BHs.
SHREEKANT
1 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 201512. "in black hole information are lost"
2ND OPINION: in fact there is no information loss in sense matter & energy goes in matter & energy comes out. One side matters are destructed on other side matters are created [can be explained by the inner structure of galactic core & formation].
http://swarajgrou...sis.html
Accata
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 03, 2015Intuitively it's quite evident, that if curved space-time exhibits some nonzero positive mass or energy density according to general relativity, this mass density will contribute to gravitational collapse in avalanche-like way, until the singularity (i.e. infinitely curved space-time) will be formed.
Accata
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 03, 2015But the general relativity doesn't care about this mechanism, so it does lead into unphysical solutions.
Accata
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 03, 2015Benni
1.8 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015No, you have the sequence wrong. First Schwarzchild came up with his calculations of the SCHWARZCHILD RADIUS, This was 1917 the year following the 1916 publication of GR. Schwarzchild had already been working on his "radii" for a number of years but couldn't make it work because he didn't have the proper gravity calculations. The Friedman material didn't come along until many years later.
But this is not in GR, you are spinning a narrative as evidenced by your use of the word "Intuitively", your words, not Einsteins'.
swordsman
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 03, 2015Mimath224
5 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 2015Another might be the youtube 'Black hole Wars' where Leonard Susskind talks about this & his discussions with Hawking. LS also discusses the amount & location of information.
@Benni I admit that Einstein didn't have compact mass in mind when he made the prediction of light deflection in a grav field but it was predicted by 2GM/rc² and he did wonder about the '...influence of grav fields...' on light. So the BH/light discussion is only a couple steps away.
Benni
1.8 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015This is absolutely correct Mimath, but it is an almost appalling thing to read the narratives people spin about the contents of Einsteins' GR because all they do is read other stuff about what other people say it contains.
But carryng this a little further about the predictions of BHs vs. the Schwarzchild Radius, even that is surmised from extrapolated points from a curve on a graph. I've never read anywhere that even Schwarzchild believed the radii/density curves of his calculations would hold true all the way down to create a single point, of course extrapolated data on the curve makes this possible, it is only math that makes this prediction & not what we know about nuclear physics.
viko_mx
1 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015Before one can accept the idea of black holes must ask to two basic questions. Do he knows well the properties of cosmic vacuum whose structure is the transmission medium of elementary particles and determine their energy interactions. And second, whether there ever was a scientific authority among the people who was undeniable? Who is lazy to thinking or does not have the enough knowledge prefers to follow human authorities. But it is so uncertain bearing in mind the history of science.
thefurlong
4.9 / 5 (8) Apr 03, 2015Actually, that argument is spurious. In GR, free-fall in a gravitational IS inertial movement. As a consequence, no energy is actually gained or lost by falling into a gravity well, any more than any energy is gained or lost by traveling in a straight line in the absence of a gravitational field. We only see this as acceleration because we are in a remote patch of space-time. That being said, some energy probably is lost to the atom undergoing fusion as it gets compressed, but that's only a guess.
viko_mx
1 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 2015The force create acceleration of the objects -> F= m.a
Space have noting to do with time. This mantra space-time is very boring and have no sence. It is suprising to see how seriously is taken such pure speculation.
What is the reason 3 spatial dimensions to unite with the speed with which physical objects are changing their state and its position in these 3 dimensions?
thefurlong
4.6 / 5 (10) Apr 03, 2015Our best theory of gravity predicts black holes. We have observed many, many, objects that appear to be black holes, just as this theory predicts. In the absence of a local sample, it would be silly of us not to learn about them as much as we can through theory, in the hopes of gaining better insight into the nature of our universe. Sure, they might not exist, but we have no reason to assume they don't based on the evidence we've seen so far. So, just stop whining. Oh, and actually learn about GR. Nobody is going to listen to your gripes if you don't at least understand the theory.
thefurlong
5 / 5 (10) Apr 03, 2015No, that's how force is defined in Newtonian mechanics. A more fundamental way to define it is as the time derivative of momentum. As a consequence, SR replaces F=ma with F = m_0*a*y^3, where y is the lorentz factor, and m_0 is the rest mass. In GR, we deal with local inertial reference frames as defined by the local metric. Because gravitational acceleration is just really just movement along a geodesic, then, in a local inertial reference frame, this gravitational acceleration will, once again, become 0. Hence, there is no force on the particle.
Actually space and time are very much intertwined, assuming the first postulate of SR, or the equivalence principle of GR. Basically, what you are saying is that these postulates are wrong.
vic1248
1 / 5 (2) Apr 03, 2015That said, Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity's gravitational and light mathematical equations showed the effect of what is referred to as "Black Holes" but he didn't want to believe it. Later theoretical physics work showed that Einstein's GR math correctly predicts the existence of "Black Holes" and the loss of information/data at their boundaries—Event Horizons, and that, in turn, presented one of the major conflicts between the Theory of General Relativity and Quantum Physics/Mechanics, to this day.
viko_mx
1 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 2015vic1248
1 / 5 (1) Apr 03, 2015thefurlong
4.5 / 5 (8) Apr 03, 2015I don't really understand what you are asking here, but I think it might be why we treat space and time as being united. The answer is that the invariance of the laws of physics, regardless of local inertial reference frame, is what causes us to treat space as being interchangeable with time.
Dethe
2 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 2015The naive guess therefore is, at the human observer scale both theories will average into steady-state solution, the consequences of which we can see everywhere around us: the bees, trees, planets and sand speckles. Nothing around us expands or collapses - this is how the quantum gravity actually works: the mutual violation/compensation of both models leads into classical physics and mechanics. There is no reason to believe, that the black holes of the same size would behave differently.
thefurlong
4.7 / 5 (12) Apr 03, 2015No, not all of it. GR is about as proven as a physical theory can get, at least in a certain energy regime.
The difference is that none of those are accepted theories, because there is currently no way to falsify them. There might be mysteries like DM but a mystery is not the same as a clear demonstration of wrongness.
So? He also didn't believe in entanglement, either, and yet that's been overwhelmingly demonstrated. He was a genius. That didn't make him omnipotent.
Dethe
2.6 / 5 (5) Apr 03, 2015Benni
1.7 / 5 (6) Apr 03, 2015Ok, I'll be willing to go along for a bit on this little pretend game you want to embark on. Now, because your'e the one making the claim the onus is on you to present the section in GR for presentation of this claim, then we can begin the discussion.
Dethe
2 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 2015Dethe
2 / 5 (4) Apr 03, 2015vic1248
not rated yet Apr 03, 2015I am no expert on the Math of GR, or any Theoretical Physics' for that matter.
cantdrive85
1.9 / 5 (9) Apr 03, 2015denglish
4.4 / 5 (7) Apr 03, 2015This may be the best one so far:
LOL?
Read: http://en.wikiped...ical_jet
georgert
not rated yet Apr 03, 2015Read "The Blackhole Wars" by Leonard Susskind. He writes for the layman and his book will answer your questions.
bbbbwindows
3 / 5 (6) Apr 03, 2015To use mathematics to create reality is @#% backwards. Math should be used to confirm observations.
The field of cosmology today is a house of cards. One unproven theory is used as the basis for the next unproven theory and so on and so on. None of it is correct. Let's not mention that the known laws of physics and chemistry must completely breakdown for any of the standard model theories to be true.
My guess is that there is a simpler explanation that adheres to the known laws of physics and chemistry. New radio telescope data on electromagnetism suggests that this is the case.
viko_mx
1 / 5 (5) Apr 04, 2015Today's fundamental science is not involved in seeking the truth and have no arguments against it. It is envolved with the promotion of convenient misconceptions in society to make it dependent on low passions and lawlessness. These misconceptions are instruiment of power, which is enslaved by the father of lies.
Dethe
1 / 5 (3) Apr 04, 2015Recently we got over this controversy for black hole inside of our Milky Way galaxy too, because this black hole occasionally puffs out the jets of high energy neutrinos (which manifest itself with "Fermi lobes" of X-rays), but in direct contact with clouds of interstellar gas it remains surprisingly inert - which would mean, these ejections have origin inside of black hole - not outside of it.
vic1248
1 / 5 (1) Apr 04, 2015Here is an answer to your question:
https://answers.y...9AAPuFyU
(Please keep in mind this is all "Theoretical Physics," unproven science)
viko_mx
1 / 5 (4) Apr 04, 2015Something is very wrong with this world and this science because father of all lies work on the final stage of its apocaliptic plan for the people on this planet. The delusion of society is the part of its strategy. It knows very well that the Creator will soon put an end to sin and wickedness in this world, so hurry. And honest people and scienties will be favored to see all attempts for silence the truth with absurd excuses.
Benni
1.7 / 5 (6) Apr 04, 2015@Vic1248........To begin with, I don't have any questions about the content of Einsteins' GR, I know what's in it. With that said, directly above I copied & pasted from the link you provided the most accurately stated paragraph. Previous paragraphs mistakenly ascribe BHs to Einstein......cont'd
Benni
1.7 / 5 (6) Apr 04, 2015In Einsteins' GR what he accomplished was to prove gravitational lensing, he never alluded to the concept that gravity could be so strong as to make a photon become so sharply deflected by the lensing process that the Sun could do more than just bend starlight a few degrees as it passes near its' disk.
It was Schwarzchild who saw the portent of the Einstein Field Equations for gravity to fit into his Radii vs. Mass equations by which he made the calculations that a gravity field could be so strong given a specific Radii & Mass that photons could be deflected 180 degrees.
Uncle Ira
4.2 / 5 (9) Apr 04, 2015@ Bennie-Skippy. How you are Cher?
I though you were one of those "I don't need to snip and glue from other Skippy's stuffs sort of guy"? Why you steal some other Skippy's stuff there without giving him the credit?
Bongstar420
1 / 5 (1) Apr 04, 2015Furthermore, I don't see how perfect knowledge of the contents of a black hole would yield a perfect replication of the stuff which preceded it. You could only make things that were similar but still not identical. Finally, I don't believe fine scale phenomena are entirely discrete items unless they have determinant trajectories through extra dimensions.
Essentially, there is no "ex-nilho" for anything which also means it cannot just "disappear" in any total sense of the term.
phprof
not rated yet Apr 04, 2015brad_210000
1 / 5 (1) Apr 04, 2015PhotonX
5 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015martin_rives
not rated yet Apr 05, 2015What if it didn't....... for example, you drop your phone in a hole on Earth, no one knows when it stops, how deep it is : you consider that your phone is lost forever ( and buy a new one eventually) because you do not have enough knowlege, you do not know how deep it is... maybe the hole crosses Earth and throws your phone out of it on the other side of the planet...and it might be the same for black holes :
we consider that the information is lost forever bescause we do not know where it goes out, like for the phone drooped in the hole...
Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015Benni
2 / 5 (4) Apr 05, 2015What is this gravity condensation stuff? At this point I'm starting to wonder if you even know what "entropy" is, but at least you're correct in that "distribution of energy" never gets wasted, it's called the Mass/Energy Equivalence Principle Einsteins' SR.
Of course energy, or "information" if that's what you want to call it, is fully preserved, as in accordance with the Mass/Energy Equivalence Principle of SR, better known by the equation E=mc*2, it's impossible to get anymore explicit than this that "information" (energy) is never lost.
So, what does this mean?
Dethe
5 / 5 (1) Apr 05, 2015Dethe
5 / 5 (1) Apr 05, 2015Benni
2 / 5 (4) Apr 05, 2015DeliriousNeuron
2.7 / 5 (7) Apr 05, 2015Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 05, 2015Benni
2 / 5 (4) Apr 05, 2015Dethe: quoting you two posts up.....
Without a doubt there are bigtime problems for not finding Einstein Rings where we'd expect to observe them. You'd think also that DM theories of gravity would rectify this conundrum of failing to observe gravitational lensing of a galactic bulge, but does not in most cases.
cantdrive85
3 / 5 (8) Apr 05, 2015The Supermassive BH is the type of BH with the greatest concentrations of unicorn horns, call it the "Super Horny Black Hole". This super mass of unicorn horns with it's torus of Pegasus type flying unicorns surrounding the "Event Hornizon" which eventually terminates at the "Singularity of Horniness", but you'll never see anything get there because the "Great Leprechaun of the Hourglass" prevents other perspectives from observation until infinity. It is only visible from the other side, viewed through a special spectroscope shoved up the unicorn's ass. The only information that can escape is the very important info which bubbles up to the tippy top of the monstrous unicorn horn tip which will beam the info away, to Zeus...Dr. Zeus...
charlimopps
not rated yet Apr 06, 2015russ_rutter
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 06, 2015Even if black holes were to disappear. Time stopped at the event horizon to the observer and thus the universe would never witness it happening.
Try a piece of M theory instead, where the equations pops to a white hole. In which everything already happened before it did and another big bang occurred creating another universe on the other side of our spatial "membrane".
Each black hole is a seal-off from the other side of this membrane. To the white hole it would be the eventuality of the end of it's parent universe. (even though to us it hasn't happened yet)
Also the silly notion that 2 black holes can wrap space in a way you want to travel "through" is flawed as well. We can witness 2 black holes orbiting each other all the time.
-Russ
viko_mx
2.3 / 5 (3) Apr 06, 2015In our universe everything is created with design and purpose. The existence of such unnatural objects as black holes is pointless and demonstrates only the stupidity and vanity of pseudo science.
In the universe exist objects with strong gravitational effects, but they are not black holes and work on an entirely different principle, which excludes singularities and paradoxes. These objects do not swallow matter and energy. It seems to me that these popular dark objects like black holesi and dark matter and energy are rather affinity to the occultism than to the truth and serious reputable science.
viko_mx
3 / 5 (2) Apr 06, 2015Dethe
3 / 5 (2) Apr 06, 2015Job001
5 / 5 (1) Apr 09, 2015Scientifically, the observer, the information processor, cannot be ignored.
To forgo the observer is to forgo science.