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Phreaky Physics (rebroadcast)

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The Black Hole Information Paradox

Hawking's discovery of Hawking radiation has incited a lot of controversy, but none of it is about the mechanism itself. The black hole evaporation "never involves anything from the inside coming out," he says. Quantum theorists have been going back and forth for more than 30 years over whether or not information really leaked out.

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