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PARADOX SOLUTION. “In order to resolve this apparent violation of the GSL, we have suggested to use a (generalized) version of the hoop conjecture.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

THE PARADOX RECAP. “In the present paper we have highlighted a non-trivial aspect of Bekenstein’s historical gedanken experiment: We have shown that if the body can be lowered slowly all the way down to the black-hole horizon, as previously assumed in the literature, then for near-extremal black holes the resulting increase in black-hole surface-area (due to the assimilation of the body by the black hole) may become too small to compensate for the loss of the body’s entropy.” https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

STRESS TEST POSITIVE. “In particular, it was shown by Bekenstein that, in the regime r+(r+ − r−) ≫ μR of black holes which are far from extremality, an entropy bound of the form ensures the validity of the GSL in the famous gedanken experiment in which an entropy-bearing spherical body of radius R and proper mass μ is slowly lowered into a black hole.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

DERIVATIVE 2ND LAW. “Following this bold conjecture, Bekenstein proposed a generalized version of the second law of thermodynamics, according to which the sum of black-hole entropy...and the ordinary entropy of matter and radiation fields in the black-hole exterior region never decreases.” https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

REASON + INTUITION. “Dual Process Theories (DPT) of reasoning posit that judgments are mediated by both fast, automatic processes and more deliberate, analytic ones. There is much evidence to support the thesis that reasoning and decision-making are accomplished by recourse to two qualitatively different types of processes.” https://lnkd.in/d8gkPCQ View in LinkedIn

PRIMACY OF INFO. “This viewpoint invites a new look at venerable questions. The information storage capacity of devices such as hard-disk drives has been increasing by leaps and bounds. When will such progress halt?” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

HIS THESIS SUPERVISOR. “Likewise, a century of developments in physics has taught us that information is a crucial player in physical systems and processes. Indeed, a current trend, initiated by John A. Wheeler of Princeton University, is to regard the physical world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL INFO. “A ribosome in a cell in your body is supplied with amino acid building blocks and is powered by energy released by the conversion of ATP to ADP, but it can synthesize no proteins without the information brought to it from the DNA in the cell's nucleus.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

SOFTWARE. “The robot at the automobile factory is supplied with metal and plastic but can make nothing useful without copious instructions telling it which part to weld to what and so on.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

MATTER, ENERGY AND INFO. “Ask anybody what the physical world is made of, and you are likely to be told matter and energy. Yet if we have learned anything from engineering, biology and physics, information is just as crucial an ingredient.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn