Black hole evaporation entails an objective passage of time

Foundations of Physics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 309-323

  Elitzur, Avshalom C ^a   Dolev, Shahar ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black holes; Determinism; Information loss; Time's arrow; Time's passage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033462794     PISSN: 08949875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021644319368     Document Type: Article

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