[HN Gopher] Physicists come close to resolving the black hole in... ___________________________________________________________________ Physicists come close to resolving the black hole information paradox Author : acalmon Score : 32 points Date : 2022-08-02 13:18 UTC (9 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org) | daveslash wrote: | Clicked this thinking it was about the double slit experiment | observer-effect. Maybe that's not exactly a paradox, but I still | can't wrap my head around it. | ithkuil wrote: | The easiest way to wrap your head around is to: | | 1. Abandon for a moment the idea that we are special | | 2. Imagine what the most simplified agent that "experiences" | things would look like. For example a simple machine that | observed am experiment and reduces it into a simple "do I see | interference bands or do I see only one band?" and records it | to some simple memory. | | 3. Let the wave in superposition interact with the machine and | compute what happens to the machine now that it is itself | entangled with the wave | | 4. Very hard math | | 5. The machine is in a superposition state of various state, | each observing the wave collapse | a_shovel wrote: | Quanta is great at explaining deeply technical scientific topics | like these. They put the effort into making analogies and | comparisons for even the most esoteric theoretical constructs | like the ones in this article. I can't judge if they're | _accurate_ , owing to not being a theoretical physics Ph.D., but | it's always an entertaining read. | baal80spam wrote: | (2020) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-02 23:01 UTC)