pith. machine review for the scientific record. sign in

arxiv: hep-th/9209058 · v1 · submitted 1992-09-16 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Recognition: unknown

Do Black Holes Destroy Information?

John Preskill
Authors on Pith no claims yet
classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords informationblackholeslossparadoxappearconcludedestroy
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

I review the information loss paradox that was first formulated by Hawking, and discuss possible ways of resolving it. All proposed solutions have serious drawbacks. I conclude that the information loss paradox may well presage a revolution in fundamental physics. (To appear in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Black Holes, Membranes, Wormholes, and Superstrings.)

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Minimum lifetime of a black hole

    gr-qc 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    A minimum purification time for evaporating black holes is derived as scaling with M0^4/hbar^{3/2}, becoming exponential in initial area under a metastability assumption for Planck-scale holes, implying white-hole remnants.