{"id":24898,"date":"2016-04-22T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/stephen-hawking-history-and-memories-could-be-illusions-because-of-black-holes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:53","slug":"stephen-hawking-history-and-memories-could-be-illusions-because-of-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/stephen-hawking-history-and-memories-could-be-illusions-because-of-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking: \u201cHistory and memories could be illusions\u201d because of black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawking-history-and-memories-could-be-illusions-because-of-black-holes.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our imaginary existential nightmare\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stephen Hawking recently discussed black holes and the often contradictory properties associated with them during a lecture at Harvard. The <em>Harvard Gazette<\/em> said recently that Hawking specifically explained that, if information is really lost in black holes, then we will have been misunderstanding not only black holes, but the science of determinism, for the last 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking said that particles that fall into a black hole \u201ccan\u2019t just emerge when the black hole disappears.\u201d Instead, \u201cthe particles that come out of a black hole seem to be completely random and bear no relation to what fell in. It appears that the information about what fell in is lost, apart from the total amount of mass and the amount of rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To put that more simply, it\u2019s like someone shooting a basketball into a hoop and, instead of the ball coming out of the basket, something totally different comes out. But that\u2019s not what Hawking is concerned about \u2013 he\u2019s more concerned with the fact that the basketball \u2013 or information \u2013 seems to vanish altogether.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technobuffalo.com\/2016\/04\/22\/stephen-hawking-black-holes-harvard\/\">http:\/\/www.technobuffalo.com\/2016\/04\/22\/stephen-hawking-black-holes-harvard\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our imaginary existential nightmare\u2026 Stephen Hawking recently discussed black holes and the often contradictory properties associated with them during a lecture at Harvard. The Harvard Gazette said recently that Hawking specifically explained that, if information is really lost in black holes, then we will have been misunderstanding not only black holes, but 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":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898","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=24898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67667,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898\/revisions\/67667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}