Equation 87 · Part 1 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
Symbol t_L
What this part means
the scrambling time, and it is worth deriving in real units rather than only in the abstract.
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Where the Qubit’s Bill Comes Due The natural timescale for is the scrambling time, and it is worth deriving in real units rather than only in the abstract.
The passage around this formula
…qubit. This is an exact, hand-computable corroboration of the folklore “each extra collected qubit roughly halves what is left to recover,” not a re-derivation of Hayden and Preskill’s original bound, and it is why depends on only logarithmically: driving from 10^{-1} to 10^{-9} costs on the order of thirty extra qubits of radiation, a negligible addition to for any astrophysically sized hole. None of this requires the hole’s dynamics to be literally Haar-random for an…
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