What would it look like to fall into a black hole?
This process might shed some light on a black hole puzzle. Quantum calculations seem to show that there is too much complexity within a black hole – in earlier work, the researchers calculated that it should be possible to create much more entropy (a measure of disorder) inside the black hole than is measured by outside observers. This is like a supercharged version of the old black hole information paradox, which pits the apparent destruction of objects – and information – that falls into a black hole against quantum mechanics, which states that quantum information can never be lost. The problem may be that we have a naive view of space, which breaks down inside the black hole. To calculate total entropy, Hamilton and Polhemus assumed that you add up all the possible states that matter and energy could take at different points in space. But along with other theorists, they suspect that this usual assumption, called locality, doesn’t work inside a black hole. Somehow, different points
