#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Hawking's Prediction That Black Holes Destroy Information
The term 'black holes have no hair' was coined by John Wheeler, who stated that every black hole in the universe is described solely by its mass and spin./nUnlike stars, which have various chemical compositions and motions, black holes are all the same./nAccording to Einstein's theory, it is impossible to differentiate between objects thrown into a black hole./nHawking's 1974-75 papers concluded that black holes destroy information./nThe boundary of a black hole plays a crucial role in understanding its behavior./nCoordinate transformations can determine the equivalence or non-equivalence of related objects.
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