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Completely isolated systems seem more and more like a theoretical abstraction, not a reality. If you want true isolation, place it inside the event horizon of
by Florin_Andrei 9y ago
Completely isolated systems seem more and more like a theoretical abstraction, not a reality.
If you want true isolation, place it inside the event horizon of a black hole. Or spin up a child universe then cut off the connection. Even then some clever cookie might find ways for information to percolate from one continuum to another.
- schoen 9y ago> If you want true isolation, place it inside the event horizon of a black hole. There's a hypothesis supported by some physicists that black holes in some way export the information content of the things they previously swallowed via Hawking radiation. Hawking himself apparently has not endorsed this interpretation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox#Hawking_radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox...
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoRight. Well, at least you might kick the can down the road for a couple trillion years before the stuff leaks out. Ought to be good enough in most cases.
- knodi123 9y ago> Or spin up a child universe then cut off the connection. Unfortunately, even that doesn't always work; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_changes_during_Infinite_Crisis#Superboy-Prime's_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_changes_during_Infi...