Conflict of Principles

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Stephen Hawking's premise was sound; his math irrefutable. As matter falls into a black hole, quantum events cause it to emit particles. These particles—what became known as Hawking radiation—lead to the eventual evaporation of the black hole, and any information about the matter that fell in would be lost forever. But for physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft, something didn't sit right. In fact, it seemed to go against the very laws of physics—a contradiction which ultimately led to the radical possibility of the knowable universe as encoded information. They discuss with moderator John Hockenberry the delicate challenges of arguing with a man whose theories were for all intents and purposes "unassailable."

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• holographic
• principle
• physics
• Stephen
• Hawking
• Leonard
• Susskind
• cosmology
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[Aluminata]

Pockets of Universe with differing laws of Physics? Are not all the points of light we are capable of seeing available for analysis of their atomic constituants - and all reflect (project) the laws of the matter we are familiar with in their elemental structures?

[Aluminata]

" Open, Flat or Closed Universe: . It is a Closed Universe but will not collapse back to a single point as it is being recycled through Black Holes. It appears to be expanding at an accelerated rate because most of the matter created in the expansion of time and space exists now in Black Holes at the fringes of the Universe where the bulk of all matter ever created now exists What we see around us is but the dust trail of the bulk of matter originally created. IMO.

[dmkramerica]

While I appreciate the video. I think we need to move past the argument and run with what Susskind and Hawking have given us. It's a part of humankind's science history, yes, but let's move along to the better stuff yet to come.