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So the surface area of the event horizon is related to the amount of information that been accumulated by the black hole. I think we are looking at some sort of Planck scale unit of area here. Perhaps a tessellation of triangles each a Planck length on a side. Each unit area hold a bit of...

When they talk about information falling into a black hole, are they referring to the basic defining parameters of the particles falling into the hole?

My Name is Burt Webb. I am retired from the software business. I currently write a daily blog called www.nucleotidings.com on nuclear issues and a weekly blog called www.spacereport.com about the space industry. I have a long time interest in cosmology and quantum mechanics.