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This is where my layperson's intuition totally breaks down.

Matter goes into black hole. Black hole destroys everything because too much gravity and spacetime itself might or might not literally have a break in it. Eventually the remnants of said matter radiates out as random particles.

That seems totally logical and not paradoxical at all to me. My uneducated mental models of black holes and information theory are so crude that I can't even see what the problem with this is. All I can figure is that the conclusions of a theorem in Research Area A turn out to violate an axiom that is used and dependend-on in Research Area B.

I did however find this very interesting document that seems to cover some of what I'm missing: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-singularities/. I'll have to make my way through it over the next few days, maybe it will benefit other people, too.



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