Recent content by brcooke

Thanks to all for their contributions. My question is obviously the Black Hole Paradox, although I didn't realize it at the time. What led me to it is the idea that in the distant future, the universe will be dominated by black holes (of course the expansion of the universe could prevent...

No, I haven't, but I'm deep into the holographic principle as suggested. I will check that next. Thanks!

No, I haven't, but I'm deep into the holographic principle as suggested. I will check that next. Thanks!

That's a good point. My understanding is that Hawking radiation increases in intensity as the black hole evaporates. So the dissipation of energy via this radiation constitutes an increase in entropy within our observable universe, but we still don't know how much there is within the black hole.

I know they do. That is why I qualified my statement by saying "(almost) nothing can escape".

Hi, I'm not a physicist so the answer to this question may be elementary but I can't figure it out for myself. I posted this elsewhere before finding this particular part of the forum. Black holes are famous because (almost) nothing can escape from them. Once an observer has crossed the event...

Hi, I'm not a physicist so the answer to this question may be elementary but I can't figure it out for myself: Black holes are famous because (almost) nothing can escape from them. Once an observer has crossed the event horizon, no more contact may be made with him or her. Thus it will...