Black Hole Information Paradox

Black Hole Information Paradox

Updated: October 21, 2020
Physics

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The result of the marrying of QM with GR. (Initially, Hawking’s) calculations suggested that information would permanently disappear in a black hole. This runs afoul with the postulates of the Copenhagen Interpretation, in that information about a system is encoded in its wave function \(\Psi\) and, further, that that information is conserved.

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