Sunday, April 9, 2023

Can Souls Escape from a Black Hole?

 

Thank you, Roy Ng for this new and interesting discovery:

 https://www.unilad.com/news/stephen-hawking-black-hole-paradox-solution-872368-20230402#:~:text=Stephen%20Hawking%27s%20famous%20black%20hole%20paradox%20looks%20to,updated%C2%A016%3A01%2C%C2%A002%20April%202023%20BST

According to Stephen Hawking this means that the leaking of this radiation would ultimately cause the black hole to completely evaporate, leaving a vacuum behind and causing a loss of information - this has come to be known as 'Hawking radiation'.

Hawking's research showed that black holes emit radiation — colloquially known as 'quantum hair' — in the form of thermal energy. Due to its thermal nature, this radiation isn't able to carry information about the stars that birthed the black holes.

These findings, however, are in contrast with the laws of quantum mechanics, stating that information cannot be destroyed and that an object’s final state can still retain clues about its origin, hence generating the paradox.

However, research from study authors Xavier Calmet, a professor of physics at the University of Sussex, and Steve Hsu, a professor of theoretical physics at Michigan State University, introduces a tweak to Hawking's calculations which would make the radiation 'non-thermal,' and thus capable of carrying information.

"Calmet and Hsu findings is the final nail in the coffin for the paradox because we now understand the exact physical phenomenon by which information escapes a decaying black hole," Calmet told Live Science.

He also noted how, according to the laws of quantum physics, information cannot be created nor destroyed, comparing the life of a black hole to a movie that 'could be rewound'.

"Starting from the radiation we should be able to rebuild the original black hole and then eventually the star," he continued.

Calmet and Hsu reassessed Hawking's theory factoring in the effects of 'quantum gravity,' that is the description of gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics.

"While these quantum gravitational corrections are minuscule, they are crucial for black hole evaporation," Calmet explained”.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape its event horizon.

The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon. Although it has a great effect on the fate and circumstances of an object crossing it, it has no locally detectable features according to general relativity. In many ways, a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. Moreover, quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit Hawking radiation, with the same spectrum as a black body of a temperature inversely proportional to its mass. This temperature is of the order of billionths of a kelvin for stellar black holes, making it essentially impossible to observe directly.

Inside a black hole, the gravity is so powerful that nothing, not even light can escape. Light made up of photons has no mass, but energy. Its energy is so weak compared with the force of gravity within the event horizon of a black hole that makes it impossible for light to escape. However, light is made up of photons.

Photons are the smallest units of light that have no mass. But according to Einstein mass and energy are interrelated as shown by his famous equation E = mcwhere its mass (m)   multiplied by the square of the speed of light = energy emitted. Hence my personal feeling is, light consisting of photos may have mass after all, but they are so small that their mass can never be detected or measured. We may say that the energy of light and its mass no matter how small exist together as relativistic mass.

 In such a case light that has very weak energy and even far weaker mass would never be able to escape the horrendously powerful clutches of gravity inside a black hole up to the radius of the event horizon.

But what about the soul of a dead person that has neither mass nor energy?  Because of its absence of both mass and energy it can never be detected let alone measured by scientists using any instrument. Soul is the living spirit of a living person that leaves the physical body on death of the physical body, and in no way can a soul be detected or measured by any science that we know of.  I have often said that the entire heavens (as religions call them but is called the Universe by science) can be destroyed, but not the soul that lives on for all eternity.

Using logic, I have just described that the soul that has neither mass nor energy, would be able to enter into any black hole and leave it at any time without being affected by any gravitation field and without being detected.  

This tallies with what was written in Revelation in the Bible that tells us heavens and earth and all the works there in will be destroyed in fervent heat as described here:

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up" (2 Peter 3:10).

I only partially agree with Stephen Hawking that information about the origin and birth of stars and black holes will be destroyed, and the thermal radiation (Hawking’s radiation) emitted will not carry any information about the previous birth of stars which to me also means previous heavens and earth.

But I strongly believe this does not apply to the soul that is immortal because souls are not thermal or heat radiations. Neither are souls Hawking’s radiation remains. It applies only to the physical body of those who have died. They too will not be remembered as given in these three verses:

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten (Ecclesiastes 9:5)

“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind (Isaiah 65:17)

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea" (Revelation 21).

However, when a new heaven and earth is created after the present one is destroyed, we can still see the souls of those who have died in the vision of a new heaven and earth.  Some, not all the souls, would be transferred there to the new earth as clearly foretold here:

"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years" (Revelation 20:4).

As already explained, the souls of the dead are not thermal radiation, and hence they can still carry information about themselves, and they can remember all their past events.

Thus, I fully agree with Professor Xavier Calmet and Professor Steve Hsu who both said that some information remains even if the entire universe and black holes are destroyed.

Calmet and Hsu noted how, according to the laws of quantum physics, information cannot be created nor destroyed, comparing the life of a black hole to a movie that 'could be rewound'. So is the immortal soul whose life experiences can be rewound and recalled.

This means after a series of birth and rebirth of new heavens and earths it would be like a rewound movie as Calmet and Hsu mentioned after they recalculated Steven Hawking’s theory. So are the souls that are immortal that remember all the information of their past lives.

This was what I have also written many times about the immortal soul, the recycling of the entire Universe together with the recycling of birth and death through their eternal souls in my blog articles.

This shows how new scientific discoveries can be in tandem with what is revealed in the Bible.

Unfortunately, a lot of scientists are spiritually blind to this as they only can see and measure objects that are material and physical including light they can see or heat they can feel, or measure with a thermometer.  


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