Astronomers May Have Solved Information Loss Paradox To Find Black Holes Do Not Form

According to the researchers, if black holes exist, information formed in the initial state would disappear in the black hole through a burst of thermal radiation that carries no information about the initial state. Using the functional Schrodinger formalism, the researchers suggest that information about the energy from radiation is long evaporated before an event horizon forms. "An outside observer will never lose an object down a black hole," said Stojkovic. "If you are sitting outside and throwing something into the black hole, it will never pass over but will stay outside the event horizon even if one considers the effects of quantum mechanics. In fact, since in quantum mechanics the observer plays an important role in measurement, the question of formation of an event horizon is much more subtle to consider." The physicists are quick to assure astronomers and astrophysicists that what is observed in gravity pulling masses together still holds true, but what is controversial about the new finding is that "from an external viewer's point it takes an infinite amount of time to form an event horizon and that the clock for the objects falling into the black hole appears to slow down to zero," said Krauss, director of Case's Center for Education and Research in Cosmology... If black holes exist in the universe, the astrophysicists speculate they were formed only at the beginning of time.

This illustration shows the thick dust torus that astronomers believe surrounds supermassive black holes and their accretion discs. (Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC))

1 posted on 06/23/2007 9:05:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

2 posted on 06/23/2007 9:09:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)

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3 posted on 06/23/2007 9:11:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)

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Not really about string theory, but this is bound to be of interest. IMHO, reeking stinking smoking pile, but still of interest.

4 posted on 06/23/2007 9:11:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)

Yes, but does Schrodinger’s cat live or die? That is the question.

5 posted on 06/23/2007 9:12:28 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)

6 posted on 06/23/2007 9:51:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)

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