Re: [math-fun] Ain't no more matter particles, found them all?

But if the holographic universe is encoding all of the information in the _surface area_, and if the total entropy is smaller than expected, wouldn't that also make the universe itself smaller than ~15Billion lightyears in radius? I'd love to hear Verlinde's ideas about black holes. Perhaps Hawking et al. are wrong, and black holes can eat info after all? At 09:05 PM 12/14/2012, meekerdb wrote:

There's another possibility. QM allows negative entropy, essentially entropy that is subtracted to avoid over counting the states of entangled particles. It may be that the total entropy of the universe is much smaller than it appears because of correlations that we are not taking into account.

Brent