Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Universe As A Singularity

Stephen Hawkins while researching on black holes drew up a hypothesis which stated that information  of any particle or body is lost when the object enters a blackhole before we talk about the hypothesis we need to know what exactly is information , information of a particle or an object  is the property of that individual object or particle which causes distinction between the concerned object or particle and any other object or particle.
an artist's depiction of a black hole
he said that if any two objects enter a black hole reach the singularity(also called the point of no return , even light dosent come back after reaching this point) there will be no way to differentiate between these two objects. This principle was in direct conflict with the theory of quantum physics which stated that information of a body can never be lost, thus by this hypothesis Stephen Hawkins found himself against quantum physics professor Leonard Suskind  who was firm on the point that information of a particle can never be lost even if it enters a black hole  . Thus the quantum physicists started researching to prove that Stephen Hawkins was actually wrong . After researching for a while they finally concluded that when an object enters the black hole , the information of the object or the property that causes a distinction between that object and any other object is preserved as a 2  dimensional image on the surface of the black hole . As they continued they found that the theory was more generalised than that i.e this theory (which was being called the holographic principle) did not only apply to one black hole it applied to the whole universe , that we were in a very large singularity and that our information was at the surface of it  a 2 dimensional image , 
an artist's description of the information stored as a 2-dimentional image




 now after knowing this a very important question comes to mind whether the image at the surface is the real thing or the 3 - dimentional life we know is real . The answer to that question is, mathematically they are equally real and that one cannot say that one of them is real and the other is not.  The point is some where very very far away in the universe one will find all the information in the universe in a 2-dimentional format .

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