knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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The other alternative is that the quantum information is somehow converted to some value of the black hole's measurable properties; charge, mass, and spin. We know that isn't the case because the values for these that we can infer from observation are consistent rather than growing faster than expected.

The problem is that it'd be like if matter and energy could just disappear. Black holes would be exclusively tiny, as soon as one formed it'd start vanishing anything that crossed it's event horizon rather than growing, so galaxies could never have formed as their cores would just shrink away as soon as they got too dense.

Black holes are regions of space where information density hits the upper limits allowed by physics. Add more information to it, and the event horizon expands proportionally to what was added. With that in hindsight, it seems rather obvious that the boundary of the event horizon could encode the information once thought to be lost to the black hole inside.

Also: The Lagrangian mathematics they use for quantum physics can be used to describe universes like the one you talk about, and if you're interested in things like that then I absolutely have to recommend some novels by the mathematician and science fiction author Greg Egan. It's way easier to start grasping how weird the physics can get when you get a story from the perspective of people who live there:

The Orthogonal Trilogy (2011-2013) is set in a 4d universe where the passage of time is dependent on the direction of travel in space, about a generation ship launched on an anti-timewise loop back around to the near future to develop a solution to an impending apocalyptic crisis of energy creation at the quantum scale.

Dichronauts (2017) is a journey to the end of the world in a universe where time has two dimensions and life evolved as a symbiosis of two creatures that could each experience only one direction in time.

Schild's Ladder (2002) is set in a distant future where an experiment gone awry creates a more stable form of vacuum, creating an event horizon that expands at half the speed of light. 600 years later, a ship studying the event horizon discovers that the complex geometry of the new space behind it harbors intelligent life at a much smaller scale, with their equivalent of microbes being built from the interactions of a veritable zoo of quantum fields rather than molecules and proteins.

Quarantine (1992) explores the copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, set on a future earth where the technology to put the waveform of a human mind into superposition with reality was invented. The user could turn it on, then live all possible lives from that monent until the version of themselves that achieved the result they desired would turn it off and collapse reality back into a single state. This isn't really possible for complicated physics reasons, but if it was then it'd enable seemingly impossible things to become true. The novel explores the consequences of such a future conflicting with the existence of alien species that evolved within superpositioned reality and can't survive when it's collapsed into a single unique state.

"Information" in the quantum sense refers to the waveform of the quantum system as a whole, which is kind of a weird thing to get one's head around.

Even in the case of chaotic pendulums, there's no theoretical principle that keeps us from observing and accounting for every particle and quanta of energy involved and using that to prove that the waveform of the entire pendulum is consistent with itself and the expected evolution from previous states.

But the event horizons of black holes seem to break that rule, because the waveforms of black holes can be described with just three properties; mass, charge, and spin. There didn't seem to be "room" for them to encode all the waveforms of anything that falls inside until Stephen Hawking theorized that it could be saved in polarization states of the event horizon boundary and black holes would gradually radiate it away.

To oversimplify, "information" is a very specific thing in quantum physics. Classical physics has the rule that energy can change form but cannot either be created or destroyed.

Information works the same way in quantum physics, which makes black holes seem like a problem since their event horizons are inescapable and anything that falls inside is lost.

How many GPUs d'ya think they put in those?

I've been burned by too many promises like that to get my hopes up for a political party, but I'll hear about it if they start acting like they want my support.

The fact that they haven't started kicking out DINOs and corporate financiers bodes ill for the odds that we'll see a face-turn.

Sadly, I don't have your faith that the system will allow us to fix it. It's not our system, it never was, and the people in power have no reason to abolish themselves and put democracy in charge.

There is no "fixing it", the real question is how we'll navigate the interesting times ahead.

His heel-turn occurred three years before that when he sold Oculus to Facebook in 2014.

He destroyed the American Empire too, but that feels like giving Hitler credit for shooting Hitler.

Very much no.

They're more like those pixel physics sandboxes combined with a real-time strategy game. The enemy faction is a simulated liquid.

Not since Bad Company 2 like 15 years ago

Cool. Wake me up when Trump and Elon start caring about behaving lawfully.

I do blame them, though. They could have ridden the coattails of Biden's withdrawal all the way to victory, but instead Hartis capitulated and palled around on stages with Republicans instead of Walz.

The failure of the Democrat campaign has a lot of causes, but none more so than the failure of leadership.

Those aren't words that can easily be confused for each other due to accents or minor variance in pronunciation.

And besides, we already have a genre name for Vampire Survivor-alikes. They're bullet heavens.

Seems like an insufficient difference for two genres that are so distinct. Plenty of opportunities for confusion.

Survival games are already a thing, though.

What backlash? All I see is Republicans making a mountain out of a molehill.

I used to work for HostGator and sadly that sounds about right. They started going downhill fast after the second buyout.

Didn't he go fash?