Hi Ben,
Could it be that black holes do not "destroy" information but merely
randomize it, ala decoherence? For a hint see:
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410172
Onward!
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Goertzel" <ben.domain.name.hidden>
To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:52 PM
Subject: RE: Quantum theory of measurement
>
>
> What if instead of "throwing out" the information you shoot it into a
> black
> hole?
>
> Then presumably the information is really gone so the result should be as
> if
> the information were "quantum erased"??
>
> Unless there are white holes of course!! ;-)
>
>>
>> Yes but we are choosing which half to throw out in a very peculiar way --
>> i.e. we are throwing it out by "un-happening" it after it happened,
>> by destroying some records that were only gathered after the events
>> recorded in the data already happened...
>>
>> Ben
>
Received on Wed Oct 12 2005 - 23:37:23 PDT