{"id":177682,"date":"2023-12-07T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/wormholes-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:24:35","slug":"wormholes-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/wormholes-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox","title":{"rendered":"Wormholes help resolve black hole information paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wormholes-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A RIKEN physicist and two colleagues have found that a wormhole\u2014a bridge connecting distant regions of the Universe\u2014helps to shed light on the mystery of what happens to information about matter consumed by black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s theory of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/general+relativity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">general relativity<\/a> predicts that nothing that falls into a black hole can escape its clutches. But in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking calculated that black holes should emit radiation when <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, the theory governing the microscopic realm, is considered. \u201cThis is called black hole evaporation because the black hole shrinks, just like an evaporating water droplet,\u201d explains Kanato Goto of the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>This, however, led to a paradox. Eventually, the black hole will evaporate entirely\u2014and so too will any information about its swallowed contents. But this contradicts a fundamental dictum of quantum physics: that information cannot vanish from the Universe. \u201cThis suggests that general relativity and quantum mechanics as they currently stand are inconsistent with each other,\u201d says Goto. \u201cWe have to find a unified framework for quantum gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A RIKEN physicist and two colleagues have found that a wormhole\u2014a bridge connecting distant regions of the Universe\u2014helps to shed light on the mystery of what happens to information about matter consumed by black holes. Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity predicts that nothing that falls into a black hole can escape its clutches. But in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177682","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}