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Reading the February edition of the New Scientist (about space-time being possiblly quantized in its own right) I read that the event horizon of a black hole is a 2-dimensional entity that may possibly encode all the information to describe the 3- 0r ->3 dimensional universe inside.
That is interesting of course but am I right to wonder how the surface of the black hole can be described as 2-dimensional in the first place?
In my poor little mind it would only qualify as 2 dimensional (and then only in theory) if it was purely idealised as a surface with zero width.
This would be impossible unless the black hole was to exist in isolation to the rest of the universe.
To my mind 1- ,2- 3- dimensional obnjects are all idealisations from the established 4- or higher dimensional setup we work in at the moment.
That seems to be my main point: I can cope with gazillions of hypothetical extra dimensions but not with any subtraction of those we already seem to be dealing with.
Have I got things by the wrong handle somehow or am I just naturally obtuse (or both obviously) ?
That is interesting of course but am I right to wonder how the surface of the black hole can be described as 2-dimensional in the first place?
In my poor little mind it would only qualify as 2 dimensional (and then only in theory) if it was purely idealised as a surface with zero width.
This would be impossible unless the black hole was to exist in isolation to the rest of the universe.
To my mind 1- ,2- 3- dimensional obnjects are all idealisations from the established 4- or higher dimensional setup we work in at the moment.
That seems to be my main point: I can cope with gazillions of hypothetical extra dimensions but not with any subtraction of those we already seem to be dealing with.
Have I got things by the wrong handle somehow or am I just naturally obtuse (or both obviously) ?