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Black Hole Firewall

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2012

Donald Marolf2012

Science / Physics

With collaborators, formulates the firewall paradox as a challenge to conventional assumptions about black hole horizons and quantum information.

Joseph Polchinski2012

Science / Physics

With collaborators, formulates the firewall argument, sharpening the conflict among unitarity, effective field theory and a smooth black hole horizon.

Names involved

Donald MarolfJoseph Polchinski

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