Re: Do black holes destroy information?

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From: Patrick Taylor
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:37

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In article <mcirvin.717461651@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:

>It depends, of course, on the encyclopedia.  You could toss some
>of them into the aforementioned black hole and get no net 
>information loss.

Well I bet it would make a real mess of the new Madonna CD.  But how much 
information does THAT contain?
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Subject: Re: Do black holes destroy information?
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