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Black Hole Entropy Should Be Computable

Black hole entropy, understood as the number of microscopic states consistent with the macroscopic identification of a black hole, should in principle be computable in these models by counting threads of history in the multiway causal graph, though it is computationally hard due to the exponential number of branches, motivating the local multiway systems optimization being developed.

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Stephen Wolfram

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I started looking at the multiway version of that, it's just computationally hard, because what's happening is you've got these... It's for the exact reason, you've got this big exponential in there. You've got this... All these different threads of history that you have to account for

Source

155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental PhysicsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM

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