Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new resolution to the black hole information paradox, suggesting that apparent horizons form without true event horizons, supported by ADS-CFT correspondence and likening information loss to weather forecasting chaos.

Contribution

It introduces a novel resolution to the black hole information paradox that avoids firewalls and preserves CPT invariance, supported by holographic duality.

Findings

Black hole formation involves apparent horizons without true event horizons.

Dual CFT on the boundary exhibits turbulence analogous to weather systems.

Information appears lost due to chaotic collapse, not unitarity violation.

Abstract

It has been suggested [1] that the resolution of the information paradox for evaporating black holes is that the holes are surrounded by firewalls, bolts of outgoing radiation that would destroy any infalling observer. Such firewalls would break the CPT invariance of quantum gravity and seem to be ruled out on other grounds. A different resolution of the paradox is proposed, namely that gravitational collapse produces apparent horizons but no event horizons behind which information is lost. This proposal is supported by ADS-CFT and is the only resolution of the paradox compatible with CPT. The collapse to form a black hole will in general be chaotic and the dual CFT on the boundary of ADS will be turbulent. Thus, like weather forecasting on Earth, information will effectively be lost, although there would be no loss of unitarity.