Stephen Hawking revealed a new theory at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He claims to have potentially solved the Information Paradox.
The
paradox a conflict between the quantum mechanics and general relativity
models that has vexed physicists for more than four decades. The Information Paradox arises from black holes - - -
specifically what happens to information about the physical state of
objects that fall into one.
The quantum mechanical model posits that
the information remains intact while general relativity argues that it
is indeed obliterated under the black holes immense gravitation. But
Hawking has developed a third opinion: the information never actually
makes it into the black hole. "I propose that the information is stored
not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but on its
boundary, the event horizon," he said.
Basically, Hawking argues that the information about particles sucked into the hole sit on the surface of the event horizon as holograms (2D afterimages of a 3D object).
"The idea is the super translations
are a hologram of the ingoing particles," he told the crowd. "Thus they
contain all the information that would otherwise be lost." What's more,
that information can actually escape a black holes pull thanks to
Hawking Radiation -- the concept that photons can sometimes be ejected
from a black hole due to random quantum fluctuations.
Hawking further stated black holes are boundaries or gateways to another universe.
Unfortunate space travelers won’t be able to return to their own
universe, according to Hawking. But they will be able to escape
somewhere else, Hawking said.
Black holes in fact aren’t as “black” as people thought and could be a way of getting through to an alternative universe.
“The
existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might
be possible,” Hawking said, according his report. “The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it
might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn’t come back to
our universe. So although I’m keen on space flight, I’m not going to try
that.
Hawking’s
proposal is an attempt to answer a problem that has tormented
physicists about what happens to things when they go beyond the event
horizon, where even light can’t get back. The information about the
object has to be preserved, scientists believe, even if the thing itself
is swallowed up — and that paradox has puzzled scientists for decades.
Now
Hawking has proposed that the information is stored on the boundary, at
the event horizon. That means that it never makes its way into the
black hole, and so never needs to make its way out again either.
A paradox is a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
It seems absurd or self-contradictory matter changes its status but not "information" when caught in the event horizon of a black hole. It would seem then there is a different cosmic physical state when at the edge of the gravitational pull.
How would that work on organic objects. If the "information" is created to a holographic state of "being," then would the organic life forms still be "aware" of an existence? And if the "information" is stored on the event horizon, what actually transfers into the other universe?
We set this question out because of the paradox between the island time line and the sideways world (which was stated as a place of death.) But there was evidence in the Hatch that the countdown timer was a release mechanism to "escape" a place of death. It could be that the light source is the holographic projector of the human beings caught in the event horizon of a black hole. The "information" and matter of the human beings, in essence their personal life force, continues on trapped in a new reality which appears to be the island.
How the trapped information which must wind and rewind like a video projector can interact or change is unclear. If the information on transformation is set in its final stage, then the LOST universe is merely a "replay" of past events. If the information on transformation is not set, and can change through the interaction with other newly trapped information holograms, then the LOST universe is a hybrid reality.
The Hawking concept could lend some support to the fan theorists believing that the island was part of black hole engulfing our solar system. The island could have been the "cork" or electromagnetic counter to the black hole's gravitational pull. But that does not explain the parallel time lines between the island and the sideways worlds.
In a multiple layered theory of Hawking's concepts, he may be actually trying to explain what spiritualists would call each individual's life force or soul making its journey to another level of existence.