A proposal to resolve the black hole information paradox

Abstract

The entropy and information puzzles arising from black holes cannot be resolved if quantum gravity effects remain confined to a microscopic scale. We use concrete computations in nonperturbative string theory to argue for three kinds of nonlocal effects that operate over macroscopic distances. These effects arise when we make a bound state of a large number of branes, and occur at the correct scale to resolve the paradoxes associated with black holes.

5 pages, harvmac (Essay given an `honorable mention' in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2002)

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