Black Holes Might Conceal a Huge Wall of Fire. But We May Never See Them
Interesting Engineering,
And anything that crosses will face a 'seething maelstrom of particles'.
A Simple Equation Indicates Wormholes May Be the Key to Quantum Gravity
Interesting Engineering,
Could this equation finally unite two of the biggest theories in physics?
Have We Solved the Black Hole Information Paradox?
Scientific American Blog: Observations,
Maybe—and as a bonus, we may soon have a new understanding of nature at a qualitatively different and deeper level than…
Stephen Hawking’s final paper published, tackles famous paradox
Nobel Intent,
Enlarge / Artist's depiction of a black hole. These strange objects could hold the key to a theory of quantum gravity. (credit…
The math of multiboundary wormholes
Quantum Frontiers,
Xi Dong, Alex Maloney, Henry Maxfield and I recently posted a paper to the arXiv with the title: Phase Transitions in 3D…
Joe Polchinski, 1954-2018
The Reference Frame,
February 2nd was a rather miserable day. Dow sinked by some 2.5%, the worst drop since the Brexit referendum. Even the…
From Quanta: “Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox” 2015 but Worth It.
Science Springs,
Quanta…
Излучение Хокинга позволит заглянуть внутрь черной дыры
N+1: научные статьи, новости, открытия,
Несмотря на то, что описывающие черную дыр
La strana eco delle onde gravitazionali fa traballare la Relatività?
OggiScienza,
CRONACA – “Abbiamo scoperto le onde gravitazionali”. Così il direttore del Ligo, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave…
Nature: LIGO may have seen echoes from a black hole firewall
The Reference Frame,
It has become too common for journalists to write crazy stuff that they should be normally ostracized and spitted upon forIt's…
A Simple Calculation That Shows Black Hole Firewalls Exist and How Hot They Are.
Science 2.0 Blogs,
Information is not destroyed but it is even more scrambled up than anyone thought by black holes. I have used the framework of…
Hawking radiation is not produced at the black hole horizon.
Backreaction,
Stephen Hawking’s “Brief History of Time” was one of the first popular science books I read, and I hated it. I hated it because…
Black holes and academic walls
Backreaction,
Image credits: Paul Terry SuttonAccording to Einstein you wouldn’t notice crossing a black hole horizon. But now researchers…
Buchi Neri e Paradossi Ancora Irrisolti
Scientificando,
Probabile aspetto di un buco nero, se posto davanti ad uno sfondo ricco di stelle. Da notare la luce distorta dalla gravità e l'o…
In Memoriam: Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015) and Black Hole Entropy
Scientific American Blog: Cocktail Party Physics,
Chances are you've never heard of physicist Jacob Bekenstein, who devised a nifty formula for calculating a black hole's entropy.
In Memoriam: Jacob Bekenstein (1947-2015) and Black Hole Entropy
Scientific American Blog: Cocktail Party Physics,
Chances are you've never heard of physicist Jacob Bekenstein, who devised a nifty formula for calculating a black hole's entropy.
EPR量子纠缠等价于ER虫洞？
Yin Zhangqi's Blog,
最近几年理论物理一个很火的题目是黑洞火墙悖论。四位物理学家（缩写
Falling into a black hole may convert you into a hologram
Ars Technica,
In the movie Interstellar, the main character Cooper escapes from a black hole in time to see his daughter Murph in her final…
Falling Into a Black Hole Might Turn You Into a Hologram
The Crux,
Many scientists believe that anything sent into a black hole would probably be destroyed. But a new study suggests that this…
Falling Into a Black Hole Might Turn You Into a Hologram
The Crux,
Many scientists believe that anything sent into a black hole would probably be destroyed. But a new study suggests that this…
Don’t Fear Falling Into A Black Hole – You May Live On As A Hologram
IFLScience - Space,
Space Photo credit: Black holes don’t deserve their bad reputation, says study. NASA/wikimedia In the movie…
Do black hole firewalls have observable consequences?
Backreaction,
In a paper out last week Niayesh Afshordi and Yasaman Yazdi from Perimeter Institute study the possibility that black hole…
"Black Holes don't exist:" giving context to sensational science news
Statistics, Space, Strings and Stuff,
A friend of mine recently pointed me to this article about how "Black Holes don't exist." The article concerns two recent…
La complessità dei buchi neri
AstronomicaMens,
Nel corso di questi anni, la ricerca di una teoria unificata ha portato diversi fisici teorici ad introdurre una serie di…
Recent papers by Susskind and Tao illustrate the long reach of computation
Shtetl-Optimized,
Most of the time, I’m a crabby, cantankerous ogre, whose only real passion in life is using this blog to shoot down the wrong…
Learning Lessons From Black Holes
Of Particular Significance,
My post about what Hawking is and isn’t saying about black holes got a lot of readers, but also some criticism for having come…
Why Hawking is Wrong About Black Holes
Universe Today,
Artist rendering of a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. A recent paper by Stephen Hawking has created quite…
Stephen Hawking Says Black Holes Don't Exist (Sort Of)
Discover Top Stories,
If there’s one thing in physics that captures peoples' imagination (besides time travel), it’s black holes. The regions of space…
Black Hole Information Paradox 2. Stretched Complementarity
Unitary Flow,
In this post, which continues Black Hole Paradox 1. Susskind vs. Hawking, I will explain my reasons for not accepting the black…
Qué pasa al entrar en un agujero negro
Francis (th)E mule Science's News,
El principio de equivalencia de la teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein implica que no pasa nada al cruzar el horizonte…
Qué pasa al entrar en un agujero negro
Francis (th)E mule Science's News,
El principio de equivalencia de la teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein implica que no pasa nada al cruzar el horizonte…
The Collision Lower Bound After 12 Years
Shtetl-Optimized,
Streaming video is now available for the talks at the QStart conference, a couple weeks ago at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. …
Entanglement = Wormholes
Quantum Frontiers,
One of the most enjoyable and inspiring physics papers I have read in recent years is this one by Mark Van Raamsdonk. Building…
John Preskill: My Lodestar of Awesomeness
Shtetl-Optimized,
I got back a couple days ago from John Preskill‘s 60th birthday symposium at Caltech. To the general public, Preskill is…
Quantum mechanics of black holes
Information Processing,
A paper from last summer by Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski and Sully (AMPS) has stimulated a lot of new work on the black hole…
Il 'muro di fuoco', un nuovo paradosso sui buchi neri
AstronomicaMens,
In un recente articolo apparso su Simons Foundation dal titolo Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire, Jennifer Ouellette riporta…
Apocalypses, Firewalls, and Boltzmann Brains
The Quantum Pontiff,
Last week’s plebeian scare-mongering about the world ending at the wraparound of the Mayan calendar did not distract…
East Coast versus West Coast
Not Even Wrong,
Back when I was a student I remember learning that there were two possible sign conventions to use for the Minkowski space…
When You Fall into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got?
Critical Opalescence,
In chatting with colleagues after a talk this week, Joe Polchinski said he’d love to fall into a black hole. Most theoretical…
When You Fall into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got?
Critical Opalescence,
In chatting with colleagues after a talk this week, Joe Polchinski said he’d love to fall into a black hole. Most theoretical…
Two Days of Polchinski Puzzles
Of Particular Significance,
One of the most prominent theoretical physicists of our time, Professor Joe Polchinski of the University of Santa Barbara, who…
Is Alice burning? The black hole firewall controversy
Quantum Frontiers,
Quantum correlations are monogamous. Bob can be highly entangled with Alice or with Carrie, but not both. Back in the early…
A Few Comments On Firewalls
atdotde,
I was stupid enough to agree to talk about Firewalls in our strings lunch seminar this Wednesday without having read the paper (o…
Do blackholes and blackhole evaporation have TGD counterparts?
TGD diary,
The blackhole information paradox is often believed to have solution in terms of holography stating in the case of blackholes…
Raphael Bousso converts to the Church of Firewall
The Reference Frame,
His (and probably AMPS') error boils down to a widespread misinterpretation of "choices" in quantum…
Are black holes surrounded by firewalls?
The Reference Frame,
Dilaton has noticed a new, extremely provocative concept that was introduced among the quantum gravity researchers two months…
Polchinski y varios colegas afirman que un agujero negro “viejo” será una “incineradora infernal”
Francis (th)E mule Science's News,
Recreación artística (izqda.) y diagramas de Penrose-Carter y de Kruskal (drcha.) para el “muro de fuego” en un agujero negro…
Polchinski y varios colegas afirman que un agujero negro “viejo” será una “incineradora infernal”
Francis (th)E mule Science's News,
Recreación artística (izqda.) y diagramas de Penrose-Carter y de Kruskal (drcha.) para el “muro de fuego” en un agujero negro…
Crusts 'n' Crystals
Technology Review Feed - arXiv blog,
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this weekBlack Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?
Was passiert, wenn man in ein schwarzes Loch fällt?
Astrodicticum Simplex,
Die Menschen werden noch für sehr, sehr lange Zeit nicht Gefahr laufen, jemals in (beziehungsweise auf) ein schwarzes Loch zu…