Sublime

The basic rules of quantum theory stipulate that the wave function of any system evolves in an information-preserving manner.

This is a paradox. Information appears to be irretrievably lost when black holes evaporate, yet quantum theory says this is impossible.

to produce branch effective physics and possibly higher levels of complexity.

Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. The purpose of this book is to give the answers that are suggested by recent discoveries and

all information inside evaporating black holes in an AdS universe must eventually leak out and wind up in the emitted Hawking radiation.

Grand unification and its even grander super-extensions all point to the stunning conclusion that the relative strengths of the particle forces, the masses and species of particles, and perhaps even the mere existence of matter and forces aren’t mathematical truths carved in stone but fossil relics of an ancient and largely hidden epoch of

the arrow of time effectively arises from the tendency of disorder to increase.