Hawking argues that information is destroyed

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1. Story
2. In a Physical Review D paper on the breakdown of predictability in gravitational collapse, Hawking drew out the consequence of his own 1974 result: because the emitted radiation is thermal and depends only on mass, spin and charge, the correlations that would let the initial state be reconstructed do not survive evaporation. That conflicts with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. The paper converted black holes from an astrophysical topic into a foundational problem in physics, and the conflict it identified has not been resolved.
3. Knowledge
4. The no-hair result
5. Hawking radiation
6. The black hole information paradox
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
9. Connections
10. The black hole information paradox
11. Stephen Hawking
12. Hawking radiation
13. The no-hair result
14. The Page curve is reproduced from within semiclassical gravity
15. Hawking radiation
16. The no-hair result
17. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
18. Page states what unitarity requires of the radiation
19. Hawking concedes the information bet
20. The Page curve is reproduced from within semiclassical gravity
21. Hawking radiation
22. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
23. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
24. Hawking concedes the information bet
25. Stephen Hawking
26. Black hole entropy
27. The black hole information paradox
28. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
29. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
30. The Page curve is reproduced from within semiclassical gravity
31. The Kerr solution and black hole spin
32. The black hole information paradox
33. Kerr finds the rotating solution
34. The term "black hole" enters use
35. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
36. GW150914 - two black holes merge and the signal reaches Earth
37. Evidence
38. Argues that black hole evaporation destroys information and therefore conflicts with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: not consulted in session; no research tool was available. Volume and page are from recall and must be checked.