INFORMATION PARADOX SOLVED? IF SO, BLACK HOLES ARE "FUZZBALLS"

Ohio State University ^ | 3/1/04 | Pam Frost Gorder

[Darksheare]

What if the distance between the event horizon and the black hole's "surface" is variable depending on mass of the initiating object and or how much mass it has accumulated?

[PatrickHenry]

Ping (limited list for this one).

[whattajoke]

fyi, Hawking is in hospital (again):
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1052517.htm

[NutCrackerBoy]

Ashley Judd, in a pretty good flick, Normal Life, fantasizes about death by entering the event horizon of a black hole and being trapped in an eternal moment.

[rogueleader]

Someone seems to have vagina envy.

[Darksheare]

Trapped in an eternal moment.
*shudder*
I think I'll pass on that.
*chuckle*

[kt56]

articles like this make me feel a warm and fuzzey?

[Doctor Stochastic]

What if the distance between the event horizon and the black hole's "surface" is variable depending on mass of the initiating object and or how much mass it has accumulated?

It is.

[Darksheare]

Hmm..

[r9etb]

It is a little-known fact that, when they are not out troll-hunting, the Viking Kitties are excellent theoretical phyisicists. They knew this stuff eons ago....

[r9etb]

Someone seems to have vagina envy.

Sounds to me like a possible "penile enlargement" technique. Of course, you wouldn't want to penetrate past the event horizon -- imagine the embarrassment of having to wear your partner to work....

[GeraldP]

If the Information Paradox is indeed explained through String Theory, what does that mean for Loop Quantum Gravity?

[GeraldP]

... and does it affect the Holographic Principle?

[PatrickHenry]

It is.

I was gonna say exactly that, but it seemed so simple that I was afraid I might be missing something.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Emerson, Self Reliance

[RightWingAtheist]

So much for that old saying, "a black hole has no hair"

[AdmSmith]

It was refuted earlier, see for example:
http://www.ucd.ie/math-phy/ppbh.html

Black Holes are predicted by the theory of General Relativity of Einstein. It was conjectured that Black Holes are uniquely determined by their mass, angular momentum and electric and magnetic charges. This conjecture - called "no-hair" theorem - was proved rigorously in some cases, but not in general. Surprisingly, it turned out that the "no-hair" theorem is not valid, if the Black Hole is coupled to fields with non-linear interactions. Since than self-gravitating non-linear fields where studied intensively. It was found that the coupling to gravity allows for many more solutions, which are not present in the non-gravitating case. This includes gravitationally excited magnetic monopoles, multimonopoles and monopole-antimonopole pairs.

Also new Black Hole solutions where found recently, which are static and possess only axial symmetry. The investigation of the black holes with "hair" promisses exciting new results and a deeper understanding of gravity

[RightWingAtheist]

Thanks!