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

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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Headline is gobledigook

[RightwingNutjob]

Summary implies conflation of mathematical artefacts with physical reality. Real paper is probably quite dry and abstract.

Only problem

[gweihir]

Math does not apply to reality. It always only applies to an abstraction of reality and that loses accuracy, sometimes catastrophically as almost certainly happened in this case.

determinism, a fundamental feature of the universe

[Errol backfiring]

... determinism, a fundamental feature of the universe ...

While we may wish for determinism, it has been shown long before that it does not exist.Since it was shown that we can not accurately know both the position of a particle and its speed, it has been proven that predicting the future is impossible because it is impossible to know the present, let alone calculate the future by using the present as a starting condition. So determinism is absolutely not a feature of the universe.