This is old news but I’m just getting around to blogging about it.

A couple of weeks ago, there was a news story about information loss in black holes. One such story is here.

I’ve always had a problem with the information loss theory of black holes. The basic tenets of the law of conservation of energy states that it is neither created nor destroyed. Light, being energy, is absorbed by a black hole and either must be added to the energy of a black hole or, my new thinking, change state.

The idea of energy being converted to a different energy state by a black hole brings up many interesting questions. The biggest, in my mind, is what state does it enter? My thoughts then drifted towards dark energy and matter. Could black holes be the key? Do black holes convert the light into dark? Are black holes the gateway to the darkness?

The biggest reason I was drawn to this conclusion is the unseemingly drastic end of energy once it enters the black hole’s event horizon. Almost nothing in our universe is a singleton. Everything changes state, phase, shape, mass, etc. Conserving the mass along the way. For a photon to drop into a black hole and become nothing infers that it’s either being wisked away to the other side of our universe (perhaps fueling a white hole in our adjecent universe) or, more likely, being converted to a different energy state. Occam’s razor is a beautiful thing.

In any case, since I’m an uneducated closet astrophysicist poser, I’ll let the geniuses figure this one out. But that’s just my $0.02.