Resolving the black-hole information paradox by treating time on an equal footing with space
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-01-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Pure states in quantum field theory can be represented by many-fingered block-time wave functions, which treat time on an equal footing with space and make the notions of "time evolution" and "state at a given time" fundamentally irrelevant. Instead of information destruction resulting from an attempt to use a "state at a given time" to describe semi-classical black-hole evaporation, the full many-fingered block-time wave function of the universe conserves information by describing the correlations of outgoing Hawking particles in the future with ingoing Hawking particles in the past.
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@article{arxiv.0905.0538,
title = {Resolving the black-hole information paradox by treating time on an equal footing with space},
author = {H. Nikolic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0538},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure, revised, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B