Black Hole Firewalls and Quantum Mechanics
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| author | Hooft, Gerard t |
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| contents | Firewalls in black holes are easiest to understand by imposing time reversal invariance, together with a unitary evolution law. The best approach seems to be to split up the time span of a black hole into short periods, during which no firewalls can be detected by any observer. Then, gluing together subsequent time periods, firewalls seem to appear, but they can always be transformed away. At all times we need a Hilbert space of a finite dimension, as long as particles far separated from the black hole are ignored. Our conclusion contradicts other findings, particularly a recent paper by Strauss and Whiting. Indeed, the firewall transformation removes the entanglement between very early and very late in- and out-particles, in a far-from-trivial way. |
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| spellingShingle | Black Hole Firewalls and Quantum Mechanics Hooft, Gerard t General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics Quantum Physics Firewalls in black holes are easiest to understand by imposing time reversal invariance, together with a unitary evolution law. The best approach seems to be to split up the time span of a black hole into short periods, during which no firewalls can be detected by any observer. Then, gluing together subsequent time periods, firewalls seem to appear, but they can always be transformed away. At all times we need a Hilbert space of a finite dimension, as long as particles far separated from the black hole are ignored. Our conclusion contradicts other findings, particularly a recent paper by Strauss and Whiting. Indeed, the firewall transformation removes the entanglement between very early and very late in- and out-particles, in a far-from-trivial way. |
| title | Black Hole Firewalls and Quantum Mechanics |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16890 |