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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by jihadjihad on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:50PM (#26960620)
> Which violates the third law of thermodynamics

Wouldn't this be a violation of the second law rather than the third?

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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by btilly on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:45PM (#26961270)
I just looked it up, and it is a violation of the fact that the laws of physics should be reversible. So from the wave function at any point of time you should be able to reconstruct the wave at any other.

My bad for having stuck thermodynamics in there at all. :-(

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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by willis936 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:53PM (#26960653)
It's not quite Maxwell's demon because the event horizon is a one-way causal ticket. The information might not be destroyed but it is totally inaccessible on this side of the horizon.
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