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Ground-Breaking Discovery Suggests
Gravity May Not Be A Fundamental Force Of Nature

21 April, 2012

MessageToEagle.com - Can information really escape from a black hole? According to new research it seems to be possible for something to actually escape from a black hole.

If correct, the results are ground-breaking suggesting that gravity may not be a fundamental force of Nature after all!

Black holes are objects in space that are so massive and compact they were described by Einstein as “bending” space.

Conventional thinking asserts that black holes swallow everything that gets too close and that nothing can escape, but the study by Professor Samuel Braunstein and Dr Manas Patra suggests that information could escape from black holes after all.

Professor Braunstein says: “Our results didn’t need the details of a black hole’s curved space geometry.

That lends support to recent proposals that space, time and even gravity itself may be emergent properties within a deeper theory.

Our work subtly changes those proposals, by identifying quantum information theory as the likely candidate for the source of an emergent theory of gravity.”

But quantum mechanics is the theory of light and atoms, and many physicists are sceptical that it could be used to explain the slow evaporation of black holes without incorporating the effects of gravity.

If information can escape from a black hole, gravity is not a fundemental force of nature.

The research, which appeared in an issue of Physical Review Letters, uses the basic tenets of quantum mechanics to give a new description of information leaking from a black hole.

Professor Braunstein says: “Our results actually extend the predictions made by well-established techniques that rely on a detailed knowledge of space time and black hole geometry.”

Dr Patra adds: “We cannot claim to have proven that escape from a black hole is truly possible, but that is the most straight-forward interpretation of our results. Indeed, our results suggest that quantum information theory will play a key role in a future theory combining quantum mechanics and gravity.”

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