2005 US Frontiers of Science Symposium

2005 US Frontiers of Science Symposium

Do Black Holes Destroy Information

Donald Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara

1. Do Black Holes Destroy Information?

2. General Relativity and the speed of light

3. The Modern Understanding of Gravity

4. Curved Space and The Bending of Light

5. New York Times Nov. 9, 1919

7. Why can't information escape

8. Spacetime Diagrams

9. A better scale

10. The same flat plane from another perspective

11. UP, down, and time for a black hole

12. More views of the Horizon:

13. Black Hole vs. Star

14. Summary of Black Holes (according to classical GR)

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