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Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures (vice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the gone-in-the-blink-of-an-eye dept.

dmoberhaus writes: An international team of mathematicians has found that there are theoretical black holes that would allow an observer to survive passage through the event horizon. This would result in the breakdown of determinism, a fundamental feature of the universe that allows physics to have predictive power, and result in the destruction of the observer's past and present them with an infinite number of futures. The findings were detailed in a report published last week in Physical Review Letters.

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  1. Let a mathematician go first by ITRambo · · Score: 2, Funny

    This seems risky, even if it were possible to approach a black hole. In this case, I'll choose to not believe what my teacher tells me.

  2. Donald Trump wants one of these about now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    But he'd probably just fuck that up infinitely also.

  3. It's The Mandela Effect! by phonewebcam · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those experiencing it claim the past really did change and it's not their faulty memory. It's name comes from them remembering Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 80's.