Koideointia

Koideointia is a hypothetical phenomenon proposed in theoretical physics that suggests a mechanism for how information might be preserved during the process of quantum entanglement, specifically in the context of black hole evaporation. The core idea is that as a black hole loses mass through Hawking radiation, the information about the matter that formed the black hole is not lost, but rather encoded in the outgoing radiation.

The concept arises from the apparent paradox of black hole evaporation. According to classical general relativity, anything falling into a black hole is lost forever. However, quantum mechanics suggests that information cannot be destroyed. Hawking radiation, a quantum process, causes black holes to shrink and eventually disappear, leading to a conflict between these two fundamental theories.

The koideointia hypothesis, in some interpretations, suggests that the entanglement structure of the Hawking radiation itself carries the necessary information. This could involve intricate correlations between the emitted particles that, when decoded, reveal the original state of the matter that fell into the black hole. Different theoretical frameworks, such as string theory and loop quantum gravity, explore various mechanisms for information recovery, and koideointia can be seen as a potential characteristic of such mechanisms. It remains an active area of research, with physicists seeking observational or theoretical evidence to confirm or refute its existence.