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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I think I'm talking about quantum entanglement - but I'm not pretending to have more than the vaguest notion of what it's all about. |
Thanks - that's the expression; I couldn't remember the name of it.
I rather suspect that my friend's answer is going to be "I don't know". As I'm sure you know, there is a fundamental flaw in modern physics in that general relativity (which is purely a field theory) and quantum mechanics just don't play together nicely, and our current understanding of black holes is purely in terms of GR. People have been searching, thus far largely unsuccessfully, for a way to unify GR and QM for the last 60 or so years - a so-called "Grand Unified Theory" (GUT), or "Theory of Everything".