Strominger and Vafa p-brane model of black holes

[sunkissed23]

As I was reading Stephen Hawking's "The Universe in a Nutshell," I came across a discussion of Strominger and Vafa's p-brane model of black holes. Hawking describes that for certain classes of black holes, the p-brane model predicts that information that falls into the black holes will be stored in the wave function on the waves of the p-branes.

Does anyone know what Hawking means by "information?"


Throughout the entire book Hawking never explains what he means by this.

 

[sleventh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_information