(Information) Paradox Lost

Understand

Since Stephen Hawking's original 1975 paper on black hole evaporation, there has been a consensus that the problem of "loss of information" is both deep and troubling.

• It is also thought that resolution of the problem may hold some conceptual keys to the unification of gravity with the other forces.
• I argue that this consensus view is mistaken.
• The so-called "information loss paradox" arises rather from the inaccurate application of foundational principles, involving both mathematical and conceptual errors.