Professor Sam Braunstein of the University of New York’s Department of Computer Science and Dr. Arun Pati, of the Institute of Physics, Sainik School, Bhubaneshwar, India have established a new theory according to which quantum information can run but it cannot hide.
This result has given a new twist to one of the great mysteries about black holes.
According to the researchers conventional information can be hidden in two ways that is either by hiding in a coded message or by moving to some other place.
These researchers now believe that both these mechanisms are applicable to quantum information as well and they now tell that if quantum information disappears from one place then it must be present in some other areas.
Researchers are calling this theory as the ‘no-hiding theorem’ and it is now being used to study black holes.
According to Einstein’s theory black holes are characterized as swallowing up anything that comes too close. Stephen Hawking has also made a theory that black holes evaporate in a steady stream of featureless radiation containing no information. But according to these researchers if black holes have evaporated then its information should be present at some place.
Dr Pati said: “Our result shows that either quantum mechanics or Hawking’s analysis must break down, but it does not choose between these two possibilities.”
Via: redorbit
