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by plsbenice34 1415 days ago
The prominent statement in the subtitle "physicists have proved that black holes can shed information" really irks me. Proof is just... not how science works. It is a pervasive and damaging understanding of the process of science.
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Proof, in the strict logical/mathematical sense, of facts about models is an important component of science (it's a big part of how, among other things, you derive falsifiable predictions from models), and this is strict sense proof of an implication of a model.