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Revision 79 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
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“Imported from content/03-physics.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 79 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/03-physics.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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Hawking radiation looks thermal, which would destroy information and break quantum mechanics. Since 2019, calculations using 'islands' and replica wormholes have reproduced the Page curve, which says information does come back out. How it escapes, in terms of a local mechanism, is still debated, so the problem is marked partial.

Posed 1976, Stephen Hawking.

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Gravity and the quantum · Physics