{"id":179367,"date":"2023-12-28T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-a-new-law-of-physics-explain-a-black-hole-paradox"},"modified":"2023-12-28T07:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T13:27:46","slug":"can-a-new-law-of-physics-explain-a-black-hole-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-a-new-law-of-physics-explain-a-black-hole-paradox","title":{"rendered":"Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLOHdW7dLug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When the theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind encountered a head-scratching paradox about black holes, he turned to an unexpected place: computer science. In nature, most self-contained systems eventually reach thermodynamic equilibrium\u2026 but not black holes. The interior volume of a black hole appears to forever expand without limit. But why? Susskind had a suspicion that a concept called computational complexity, which underpins everything from cryptography to quantum computing to the blockchain and AI, might provide an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>He and his colleagues believe that the complexity of quantum entanglement continues to evolve inside a black hole long past the point of what\u2019s called \u201cheat death.\u201d Now Susskind and his collaborator, Adam Brown, have used this insight to propose a new law of physics: the second law of quantum complexity, a quantum analogue of the second law of thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Also appearing in the video: Xie Chen of CalTech, Adam Bouland of Stanford and Umesh Vazirani of UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro to a second law of quantum complexity.<br \/> 01:16 Entropy drives most closed systems to thermal equilibrium. Why are black holes different?<br \/> 03:34 History of the concept of \u201centropy\u201d and \u201cheat death\u201c<br \/> 05:01 Quantum complexity and entanglement might explain black holes.<br \/> 07:32 A turn to computational circuit complexity to describe black holes.<br \/> 08:47 Using a block cipher and cryptography to test the theory.<br \/> 10:16 A new law of physics is proposed.<br \/> 11:23 Embracing a quantum universe leads to new insights.<br \/> 12:20 When quantum complexity reaches an end\u2026the universe begins again.<\/p>\n<p>Thumbnail \/ title card image designed by Olena Shmahalo.<\/p>\n<p>- VISIT our Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org.\">https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-a-new-law-of-physics-explain-a-black-hole-paradox\">Continue reading \u201cCan a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind encountered a head-scratching paradox about black holes, he turned to an unexpected place: computer science. In nature, most self-contained systems eventually reach thermodynamic equilibrium\u2026 but not black holes. The interior volume of a black hole appears to forever expand without limit. But why? Susskind had a suspicion that a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,33,1625,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cosmology","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179367","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}