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Chemical reactions can scramble quantum information as well as black holes
April 05, 2024
HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release:

If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all of the information in it, down to the quantum level, would become completely scrambled. Because in black holes this scrambling happens as quickly and thoroughly as quantum mechanics allows, they are generally considered nature's ultimate information scramblers.

Rice University theorist Peter Wolynes and collaborators at the . . .

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