{"id":16902,"date":"2015-09-04T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/new-general-relativity-area-law-theory-suggests-time-runs-backward-inside-a-blackhole"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:21","slug":"new-general-relativity-area-law-theory-suggests-time-runs-backward-inside-a-blackhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/new-general-relativity-area-law-theory-suggests-time-runs-backward-inside-a-blackhole","title":{"rendered":"New General Relativity Area law theory suggests time runs backward inside a blackhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-general-relativity-area-law-theory-suggests-time-runs-backward-inside-a-blackhole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black holes are known to have many strange properties, such as that they allow nothing\u2014not even light\u2014to escape after falling in. A lesser known but equally bizarre property is that black holes appear to \u201cknow\u201d what happens in the future in order to form in the first place. However, this strange property arises from the way in which black holes are defined, which has motivated some physicists to explore alternative definitions.<\/p>\n<p>They reported a new area law in general relativity that is based on an interpretation of black holes as curved geometric objects called \u201cholographic screens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe so-called teleology of the black hole event horizon is an artifact of the way in which physicists define an event horizon: the event horizon is defined with respect to infinite future elapsed time, so by definition it \u2018knows\u2019 about the entire fate of the universe,\u201d Engelhardt told Phys.org. \u201cIn general relativity, the black hole event horizon cannot be observed by any physical observer in finite time, and there isn\u2019t a sense in which the black hole as an entity knows about future infinity. It is simply a convenient way of describing black holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2015\/09\/new-general-relativity-area-law-theory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes are known to have many strange properties, such as that they allow nothing\u2014not even light\u2014to escape after falling in. A lesser known but equally bizarre property is that black holes appear to \u201cknow\u201d what happens in the future in order to form in the first place. However, this strange property arises from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69633,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16902\/revisions\/69633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}