David Kaplan is not an Expert (2+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCLLJ6-7ez0
Alan Lightman On Richard Feynman's Amazing Mind, Or How
"Hawking Radiation" Could Well Be "Feynman Radiation" (6+ min)
https://player.vimeo.com/video/104516539
Wikipedia - Black Holes - Open Questions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Open_questions
https://www.quantamagazine.org/search?q[s]=Black%20Holes
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes (54+ min)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/janna-levin-on-seeing-and-hearing-black-holes-20200303/
Wikipedia - Entropy and thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_thermodynamics
In physics, black hole thermodynamics is the area of study
that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the
existence of black-hole event horizons. As the study of the
statistical mechanics of black-body radiation led to the
advent of the theory of quantum mechanics, the effort to
understand the statistical mechanics of black holes has had
a deep impact upon the understanding of quantum gravity,
leading to the formulation of the holographic principle.
Black holes sometimes behave like conventional quantum systems
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-black-holes-conventional-quantum.html
The physics of black holes remains an elusive chapter of
modern physics. It is the sharpest point of tension between
quantum mechanics and the theory of general relativity.
According to quantum mechanics black holes should behave
like other ordinary quantum systems. Yet, there are many
ways in which this is problematic from the point of view of
Einstein's theory of general relativity. Therefore, the
question of understanding black holes quantum mechanically
remains a constant source of physical paradoxes. The careful
resolution of such paradoxes should provide us a clue as to
how quantum gravity works. That is why the physics of black
holes is the subject of active research in theoretical
physics.
Quantum Black Holes As Elementary Particles
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.5012.pdf
Wikipedia - Information loss paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox#Postulated_solutions
https://www.freedawn.co.uk/scientia/2015/04/10/proposed-resolution-for-the-black-hole-information-paradox/
Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. Burn a
book, and you could theoretically do the same. But send
information into a black hole, and it's lost forever. That's
what some physicists have argued for years: That black holes
are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in information
and then evaporate without leaving behind any clues as to
what they once contained.
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-black-hole-information-paradox-comes-to-an-end-20201029/
In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved
that black holes can shed information, which seems
impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a
paradox that Stephen Hawking first described five decades
ago.
Brian Greene -- What are black holes? (1 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOZDKq66DE
Brian Greene -- What is Hawking Radiation? (1+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_IfDxXVbE
Brian Greene -- What Happens To Time Near A Black Hole? (1+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUcCTRrSJCE
Brian Greene -- Is it possible to create black holes here on
earth? (1+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_nv0s4fu1w
Book: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to
Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Author: Leonard Susskind
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hole-War-Stephen-Mechanics/dp/0316016411/
Book: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Author: Kip S. Thorne
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/dp/0393312763
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