{"id":233809,"date":"2026-03-22T06:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/why-information-cannot-be-destroyed-leonard-susskind"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:07:25","slug":"why-information-cannot-be-destroyed-leonard-susskind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/why-information-cannot-be-destroyed-leonard-susskind","title":{"rendered":"Why Information Cannot Be Destroyed \u2014 Leonard Susskind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDiwft-nHgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 THE UNIVERSE NEVER FORGETS. NOT A SINGLE MOMENT. You burned a book. The words are gone. The pages are ash. But physics says every letter still exists \u2014 scattered across trillions of particles, encoded in the quantum state of reality. And it\u2019s not just books. Every breath you\u2019ve ever taken. Every word you\u2019ve ever spoken. Every person you\u2019ve ever lost. The information is still here. Right now. Permanently.<br \/> \ud83d\udd34 WHAT YOU\u2019LL DISCOVER:<br \/> \ud83d\udd34 Why burning something doesn\u2019t destroy its information.<br \/> \ud83d\udd34 How Stephen Hawking lost the biggest bet in physics history.<br \/> \ud83d\udd34 The black hole war that nearly broke quantum mechanics.<br \/> \ud83d\udd34 Why spacetime itself is made of information.<br \/> \ud83d\udd34 What this means about death \u2014 and why nothing truly disappears.<br \/> \u26a0\ufe0f WARNING: After this video, you will never look at destruction the same way again.<br \/> Like and subscribe for more reality-breaking physics.<br \/> physics, quantum mechanics, information paradox, black holes, Hawking radiation, holographic principle, entropy, universe, science, reality, quantum information, spacetime, Leonard Susskind, Stephen Hawking, ER EPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 THE UNIVERSE NEVER FORGETS. NOT A SINGLE MOMENT. You burned a book. The words are gone. The pages are ash. But physics says every letter still exists \u2014 scattered across trillions of particles, encoded in the quantum state of reality. And it\u2019s not just books. Every breath you\u2019ve ever taken. Every word you\u2019ve ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,12,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-existential-risks","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233809","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=233809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}