The Limits of Information and Black Holes

The importance of information technology motivates fundamental questions about absolute limits to information itself. I show how laws of heat, disorder and gravitational collapse reveal the ultimate limits to information storage and behavior of complex systems according to a "holographic" correspondence between natural laws of our universe with the laws of a boundary for a higher-dimensional universe.

Bio: Jacob Bekenstein was John Wheeler's doctoral student at Princeton  University and is now Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics at the  Hebrew University. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and  Humanities and a recipient of the Israel Prize. Bekenstein connected  gravitational theory with thermodynamics, which led to the Bekenstein  Bound for the concentration of information to a limited volume and to  the concept of Bekenstein-Hawking radiation, which describes emission  from black holes.

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