Nirvana, Black Holes and Reincarnation

RIP Stephen Hawking_/\_

What happens when one jumps off into a black hole? Information destruction? If yes, we have a physicist recommended path to definitive Nirvana – to take a dip in a black hole:)

The physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking of black holes fame passed away a few days ago, but his efforts helped us understand this yoga-related question of Nirvana a little better.

Every object around us, at a fundamental level, is held together by “entanglement information”. In non-living beings, this body seems to remain fixed, unable to modify this information scaffold by itself.

For a good two to three decades, scientists thought that such “information” can be destroyed, or leaked into another baby universe, in black holes, and Hawking was a strong proponent of this hypothesis.

But in 2004, Hawking conceded that information actually leaks back into the same universe, allowing the information body to get out, possibly in a garbled form. Here is a para on this topic from the referred Forbes article (between the lines):

(Think of the act of throwing a random book into a bonfire… If the owner of the book asks “where’s the book” …)
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You might shrug and say, “Well, it’s gone, so what? Don’t we lose information all the time?” No, we don’t. At least, not in principle. We lose information in practice all the time, yes. If you burn the book, you aren’t able any longer to read what’s inside. However, fundamentally, all the information about what constituted the book is still contained in the smoke and ashes.

The story of your burning book looks very different backwards. If you were able to very, very carefully assemble smoke and ashes in just the right way, you could unburn the book and reassemble it. It’s an exceedingly unlikely process, and you’ll never see it happening in practice. But, in principle, it could happen.
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When the information of the book is distributed between the ashes, gases and the heat/light radiation, how can it still be called a “book”? The information bits have all been strewn apart, right?

There’s another theory that gives us a plausible hint – quantum non-locality. This states that under certain conditions, even if the entangled quantum moieties are separated by large distances, they still “talk” to each other as if they are right next to each other. That means that our information body could remain intact at the quantum level! So death doesn’t necessarily mean we are done?

What all this means at the least is that taking a dip in a black hole does not guarantee Nirvana. Means we need to look elsewhere, for guaranteed Nirvana.

Another implication is that even though Stephen Hawking is dead now, his information body is still around in this universe, and will be the case with all of us too. From the other side, imagine ourselves before our parents were born (or before seven generations, which ever). Where were we, and what were we doing? At birth, our information bodies are just a combination of random information bits, recycled information bits of others, new?

Yogis’ reincarnation model is related, but with a slightly different emphasis – mostly the “me” corner of the “me-mine-not mine” triangle takes on different bodies.

We will explore this reincarnation model later, but hopefully this gives us all some seeds for contemplation, and pay homage to Hawking_/\_

May we all be blessed with a “contemplative” mind _/\_/\_/\_
(Bhadram no api vAtaya manah)

https://www.forbes.com/…/nobody-knows-where-a-black-ho…/amp/)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne–Hawking–Preskill_bet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement