Wrestling Stephen Hawking and Quantum Mechanics 101

[Andie]

Attention Math Nerds:  

Here’s something to keep you up at night as a millennial mathematician wrestles with a Black Hole and Stephen Hawking. 

Interesting article.  

“My personal preferred approach is more to do with the information paradox, because it’s so pivotal; it’s such an acute problem. It’s clearly telling us: Here’s where you messed up. And to me that says, here’s a place where we can begin to fix our pillars, one of which must be wrong, of our understanding of quantum gravity.”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/netta-engelhardt-has-escaped-hawkings-black-hole-paradox-20210823/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

 

[snow_wizard]

Geeze.  This is way above my pay grade!  I guess we're lucky there are people smart enough and patient enough to wrestle with this stuff.