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Questions Regarding the Destruction Of Information

antimatter
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I recently read a thread about information, and it got me thinking.

Can information be totally destroyed? Several people I ask said no, but while wondering about this, I was also reading a bit about black holes, and I was thinking, couldn't black holes completely destroy information?

What about the information released in Hawking Radiation, could it be pieced back together somehow? Or is it completely scrambled?

I apologize if this has been asked before, I had a thread before about black holes, and I asked this question, but the only answer I got was "google it".

Thanks for any answers

how are you defining information here...

 

If I smash a hard drive, or demagnetize it, the stored information will be lost, even though the matter that encoded that info will still be around.

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The matter, the molecules, I'm thinking information on a smaller scale.

But yeah, smashing a hard drive would do the job for the information you're thinking.

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Yeah, but is it possible to piece it together?

I had already read the article

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Possible.

 

Is there any method of obtaining it from the radiation?

 

It says in the link that information could be recovered, but could it be pieced together?

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