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The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
- gus_massa 10y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602954 (261 points, 340 days ago, 157 comments) This is an article that I don't like because it has too many wrong details. > Actually, Anne is being perfectly reasonable. From her point of view, you really have been burned to a crisp at the horizon. It's not an illusion. She could even collect your ashes and send them back to your loved ones. No, Anne can't collect the ashes. The "ashes" fall inside the black hole and she can't even see them, and much less collect them. > So Anne takes her bit, A, and puts it through her handy entanglement-decoding machine, which spits out an answer: either B or C. There is no "entanglement-decoding" machine. You can transmit information using entanglement, Anne can only get a random value from her bit, no an answer about B or C. Also, there are some cases where three particles are entangled ...
- Frompo 10y agoThere is an important negation missing from the above.