If a building is bombed then you still have the remains. So it still have some info left. Also with people dying. There body is still there. Even if they got chopped up there is still pieces of the person. So how can a black hole destroy all information?
2007-03-01 08:40:12 · 6 answers · asked by Class of '09 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In mathematical terms, Black holes are singularities...i.e., they create a 'hole' in the space-time continuum. When a black hole consumes matter it is not lost, it just ceases to be part of the observable universe. However, it is true that it is impossible to reconstruct the matter in its original state since only the particles are taken into the black hole and their anti-particle counterparts are 'repelled' away in what can be observed as a stream of x-ray particles emanating from the center of the black hole.
So although the matter is not lost, the information contained in the matter is. Just like when a person dies, his character and personality, etc are lost but the body remains.
2007-03-01 09:46:50 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prevailing theory is that information is destroyed by a black hole in our universe. But string theory states that there is an infinite number of parallel universes, one of which has the same information as ours but no black holes. So even if the information is destroyed here it still resides in another universe so is never truly lost.
Stephen Hawkings has come up with an alternate theory which states that information in a black hole is not lost to our universe. For example, a person falling into a black hole is not destroyed from our point of view outside the black hole but has his information smeared around the event horizon while to the person falling, nothing different seems to be happening to him. The math is not complete on this alternate theory but Hawkings and others are working on a mathematical proof.
2007-03-01 08:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by Twizard113 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoretically, the information could be recreated but it would be physically impossible to retrieve and reorganize all of the bits that contained the make up of the information.
A black-hole does not destroy all of the information. It just rearranges the order of the bits so that they are useless to the users of the information.
The atoms are broke down to the smallest particles that make them up and the empty space that is within the atom is redistributed back into the vacuum of outer-space.
2007-03-01 08:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by Dwayne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not. As a mater of fact if you read the newest Astronomy mag, you will see a neat article talking about the size of a black hole and the possibility of items surviving past the event horizon. With a large enough hole it is possible that items can survive to the other side. So all would not be destroyed.
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2007-03-01 08:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because black holes separate atoms into their constituent parts, there's no way to put the stuff back together in the original configurations.
2007-03-01 08:43:28 · answer #5 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesnt, it just compresses it into a singularity.
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2007-03-01 09:42:36 · answer #6 · answered by chase 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋