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If you change assumptions to solve a big problem, you don’t necessarily need to measure the big problem to check the assumptions. General Relativity itself was
by snowwrestler 5y ago
If you change assumptions to solve a big problem, you don’t necessarily need to measure the big problem to check the assumptions. General Relativity itself was first confirmed with a relatively simple measurement of star displacement during a solar eclipse.
The “real solution” to the black hole information paradox will be one that solves the paradox AND provides a “small” way to test the change in assumptions that creates the big solution. This is definitely worth looking for IMO.
- im3w1l 5y agoTotally agree. And it may even be that the small thing comes first. That we happen to observe some weird shit in a different domain, and once we shuffle assumptions around to fit observations we get black holes for free.
- nemothekid 5y ago>provides a “small” way to test the change in assumptions that creates the big solution Isn't this the problem. Unless we discover some primordial black holes, all black holes we currently know about are way too cold, and will be way too cold for billions of years, to test anything. GR predicted black holes, but GR wasn't about black holes, and there were plenty of other things you could test.
- whimsicalism 5y agoI think you are missing the point of the parent comment. Changing the assumptions doesn't just change how we predict black holes will behave, it should have impacts on other things that we can measure.