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If the formation and evaporation of a black hole preserves quantum information, then the horizon is a special place, unlike empty space everywhere else. This conclusion is dramatic, as it appears to contradict the equivalence principle. I will discuss proposals for how to avoid a "firewall" at the horizon, and why they fall short. The equivalence principle may nevertheless be upheld, if firewalls can be understood as a failure of the vacuum state to emerge dynamically.

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Title Black Holes And Firewalls, Can We Take Nothing For Granted?
Creator University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Physics
Published Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Physics, September 30, 2013
Link to Content UC Berkeley Library Online Video Collection.
Full Collection Name Physics Colloquia
Type Video
Format Lecture.
Extent 1 streaming video file
Other Physical Details digital, sd., col.
Archive Physics Library
Note Recorded at a colloquium held on September 30, 2013, sponsored by the Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley.
originally produced as an .mts file in 2013
Speakers: Raphael Bousso.
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