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There's a side that I am not aware of being argued with the info-being-lost paradox where because info goes beyond a boundary, it is just completely gone when the black hole evaporates and gets small like a puddle. Mainly, I see a case for information, which has a energy or heat equivalent, going into a black hole being analyzed by the same method that information leaving a universe would. You know both apparently vanish, so I would think that makes them equivalent for analysis and thinking about then. Which brings up another question I'm not sure about. Do light rays, which have info, go indefinitely outwards from the view of quantum mechanics? I ask because in General Relativity, since gravity is king at long distances, everything loops back on itself, if you will. So getting down the behavior of data as it goes into a black hole incident is important before even getting to the rest of the issue presented in this pap.
Also, boundaries seem unnatural to exist in reality when the goal of science is to make the most complete picture. The same thing goes for points. Here is another question. What in science is a singularity. I could guess a point where no existence, no mass or distance or grounds for rates, took place, or even a minute region where everything is localized on a very small scale. But beyond guesses, I like most people, am clueless. And since the speed of light is not constant in G.R., could a black hole not yet have adequate conceptual understanding? It seems like since info can go not faster than light in curved spacetime, and since there is a point where the grid just curves too much, that a new description is in order geometrically. Something has to give in this uncharted territory eventually.
Does your paper go on the idea that info hangs out on the outside of the B.H. by that weird 1/4 area to volume rule? I would see evaluating extreme or end behavior near the "edge" of the universe as only appropriate if the case is that info somehow gets past the point of no return around a black hole.
A lot of the information deals with heat theory which has developed quantum mechanically from the starters of it like Boltzmann. Is there attempted generalizations of relativity applied to thermodynamics which might shed new light on the issue here. For all the math here, it seems a little one-sided, the other side maybe not even existing! I read more abstract math here than pictorial verbiage, which vaguely results because some maths just don't condense to easy imaging. One last point is that the reason black holes evaporate didn't poke out at me. In fact, I'm still not entirely sure if they are presented here as giving off info because non is lost and thus shrinking, or rather if info just chills and shifts about like little grains or units and is exchanged, but the real radiation is due to some thermal process that does not fit thermal ideas so is called "non-thermal" behavior. Please clarify my mix up.
The mass equations are quite interesting.
Best,
Amos.