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The Black Hole Information Paradox

Jun 20, 201816 min
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We’ve established by now that black holes are weird. The result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at

Season 2018 Episodes44

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E1

What Do Stars Sound Like?

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E2

Horizon Radiation

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E3

The End of the Habitable Zone

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E4

Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

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E5

What is Energy?

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E6

The Death of the Sun

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E7

The Trebuchet Challenge

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E8

Should Space be Privatized?

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E9

Hawking Radiation

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E10

Scientists Have Detected the First Stars

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E11

The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision

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E12

The Unruh Effect

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E13

Physics of Life

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E14

Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves

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E15

Black Hole Swarms

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E16

The Star at the End of Time

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E17

How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever

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E18

Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

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E19

Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

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E20

What Survives Inside A Black Hole?

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E21Now viewing

The Black Hole Information Paradox

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E22

How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth

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E23

Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

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E24

Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model

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E25

The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy

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E26

Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon

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E27

How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?

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E28

Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction

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E29

How Will the Universe End?

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E30

Is There Life on Mars?

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E31

The Black Hole Entropy Enigma

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E32

How Much Information is in the Universe?

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E33

Quantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics

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E34

How to Detect Extra Dimensions

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E35

Computing a Universe Simulation

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E36

What are the Strings in String Theory?

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E37

Will We Ever Find Alien Life?

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E38

Are Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?

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E39

Why String Theory is Right

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E40

Supersymmetric Particle Found?

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E41

'Oumuamua Is Not Alien

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E42

Did Life on Earth Come from Space?

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E43

Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe

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E44

Why String Theory is Wrong

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Matthew O’Dowd

Matthew O’Dowd

Self - Host

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Episode Summary

"The Black Hole Information Paradox" is episode 21 of PBS Space Time season 2018. It aired on June 20, 2018.