Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed

Anuborn Satirak writes to tell us that Physicists from Case Western Reserve University claim to have cracked the black hole information loss paradox that has puzzled physicists for the past 40 years. "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."

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[eclectus]

It's what happens in the physical world when you divide by zero.

obviously

[Lord Ender]

Of course that's true, but is it also the case that a black hole can hold a stargate open, slowly sucking all of the surrounding area around the other gate into its time dilation bubble? Really, as a taxpayer funding this research, I want answers.

Link to paper

[shma]

Here's the preprint.

Hawking's solution

[EvilGrin5000]

Anyone know what happened to Hawking's proposal for information loss?

Basically what Hawking said (in a late essay entry in a science conference) was that Black Holes do 'digest' information and therefore you have information loss, however (and this is where his proposal was a bit controversial) Hawking suggested that the conglomeration of parallel universes will have a particular Black Hole present in one, and the same Black Hole missing in another, therefore the TOTAL information for ALL Universes, is retained.

Here's a link to Hawking's Black Hole Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_informatio n_paradox

And from the wiki article, here's the line I'm mentioning in my post:

"...On October 28, 2006, The Discovery Channel aired a show called "The Hawking Paradox". The show explained Hawking's conclusion that one must look at the universe as a whole, and that information lost in black holes is saved in parallel universes where no black holes exist."

It seems that this new solution is completely disregarding Hawking's proposal and replacing it with a new, stretched solution.