Muthukrishnan, Siddharth (2022) Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Black hole complementarity is an influential set of ideas that respond to the black hole information paradox. Unpacking this literature, I argue that black hole complementarity is about the consistency of quantum characterizations of an evaporating black hole. I delineate two consistency claims—i.e., two principles of black hole complementarity: operational complementarity and descriptive complementarity. A series of thought experiments in the physics literature on black hole complementarity gives us strong reasons to adopt the operational principle and reject the descriptive principle. Consequently, if we can stomach instrumentalism, then operational complementarity may suffice to resolve the black hole information paradox.
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Keywords: | black hole information paradox, philosophy of high energy physics, black hole complementarity | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Siddharth Muthukrishnan | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2022 17:48 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2022 17:48 | ||||||
Item ID: | 20907 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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Date: | 5 April 2022 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20907 |
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