A proposal to resolve the black hole information paradox
arXiv:hep-th/0205192 · doi:10.1142/S0218271802002852
Abstract
The entropy and information puzzles arising from black holes cannot be resolved if quantum gravity effects remain confined to a microscopic scale. We use concrete computations in nonperturbative string theory to argue for three kinds of nonlocal effects that operate over macroscopic distances. These effects arise when we make a bound state of a large number of branes, and occur at the correct scale to resolve the paradoxes associated with black holes.
5 pages, harvmac (Essay given an `honorable mention' in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2002)