[LibWhacker]

Very confusing stuff! What's the difference between "information" as it's commonly used and information as it's used by cosmologists and quantum physicists?

When I was a grad student in statistics, I almost took a course in information theory offered by the stats department, but couldn't fit it in my schedule. Would that course have dealt with yet a different kind of information? Confusing!

[Drammach]

My hope is that the "information" that might be eventually derived applies to properties of matter at light speed, whether matter can (or does ) travel faster than light, (muons?) cause of or properties of gravity, properties of time, and God knows what else..

Does or can a plasma field form or exist in a black hole?
Does gravity's properties remain constant, or change when acted on by extreme mass and energy? Does the square root law still apply?
Can a black hole reach saturation?
Hawking implies that the process ends at some point. What is the end result? End of a phase? Beginning of a transformation? Creation?

I gots lotsa questions..