1306.0562 (Don N. Page)

Excluding Black Hole Firewalls with Extreme Cosmic Censorship    [PDF]

Don N. Page

The AMPS argument for black hole firewalls seems to arise from an overcounting of internal black hole states that include states that are singular in the past. Here I propose to exclude such singular states by Extreme Cosmic Censorship (the conjectured principle that the universe is entirely nonsingular, except for transient singularities inside black holes). I argue that the remaining set of nonsingular realistic states do not have firewalls but yet preserve information in Hawking radiation from black holes that form from nonsingular initial states.

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