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What are cosmological “firewalls”?
Reading the funny title of this talk, Black Holes and Firewalls, just made me LOL because I have no idea what it is about but a lively imagination :-P (Sorry Raphael Bousso but the title is just too ...
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How does the holographic principle imply nonlocality?
For example in the discussions here and here there are comments by Ron Maimon:
Your complaint about locality would be more serious if holography
didn't show the way--- the CFT in AdS/CFT ...
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Has the black hole information loss paradox been settled?
This question was triggered by a comment of Peter Shor's (he is a skeptic, it seems.) I thought that the holographic principle and AdS/CFT dealt with that, and was enough for Hawking to give John ...
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About Susskind's claim “information is indestructible”
I really can't understand what Leonard Susskind means when he says that information is indestructible.
Is that information really recoverable?
He himself said that entropy is hidden information. ...
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How is the 'cluster decomposition principle' implemented in holographic theories?
Since holographic theories are non-local by definition, how is this principle implemented?
Naively, it seems to me it is not, at least, in some sense.
I would appreciate an explanation as simple ...
