Recent content by incompetence123

That's a good explanation of what information is. You can skip to 1:30 if you want.

I thought you needed physical reality to have information. So the event horizon has no physical reality? How does the information exist on the horizon anyway? And is there a connection of some kind between the information on the horizon and the physical book inside? If so, what kind? I was also...

So I've been looking up things on the Holographic Principle for a while now, but there's still a few questions I have. As I understand it, the Principle says that if I drop a book into a black hole the book's information would be 3D inside the black hole and it would also be 2D on the event...

Ok. Thanks everyone.

They just sound like they contradict each other. Even if they do make the same prediction. One theory may have one particle while the other would say there are multiple particles. Wouldn't that be like if I had a box of 3 cookies and I predict that they will be eaten by tomorrow, then my friend...

But shouldn't only one of the theories be the correct one? Even if they are both making the same prediction?

I have a question about ADS/CFT Correspondence. There is a quote from Wikipedia that confuses me. "Every entity in one theory has a counterpart in the other theory. For example, a single particle in the gravitational theory might correspond to some collection of particles in the boundary...