Black-hole uncertainty entails an intrinsic time arrow: A note on the Hawking-Penrose controversy

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-94

  Elitzur, Avshalom C ^a   Dolev, Shahar ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black holes; Indeterminism; Information loss; Time's arrow

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION;

BLACK HOLES; ENTROPY INCREASE; INDETERMINISM; INFORMATION LOSS; LAWS OF PHYSICS; TIME REVERSAL; TIME'S ARROW;

STARS;

EID: 0042624227     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00856-1     Document Type: Article

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