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gr-qc2018★ 4 cited
Discreteness of Black Hole Microstates
Gerard `t Hooft
It is explained that, for black holes much heavier than the Planck mass, black hole microstates can be well understood without string theory. It is essential to understand the anti…
gr-qc2018★ 3 cited
What happens in a black hole when a particle meets its antipode
Gerard t Hooft
The notion of antipodal identification on the black hole horizon is further explained and elaborated. Contrasting with numerous attempts in the literature to make fuzzy, poorly mot…
quant-ph2018
Time, the arrow of time, and Quantum Mechanics
Gerard t Hooft
It is brought forward that viable theories of the physical world that have no variable at all that can play the role of time, do not exist; some notion of time is one of the very f…