Re: If black holes have no hair...

On Oct 19, 3:20 pm, Edward Green <spamspamsp...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If black holes have no hair, and hence, no microstructure, then how
the hell do they have relatively huge _entropies_?  Or indeed, any
entropy? Where are the damn microstates?

Go straight to the source: Hawking and Bekenstein.

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v7/i8/p2333_1
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v13/i2/p191_1

More currently:

http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2001-6

That classical GR black holes can be described by exactly 3 numbers
[mass, charge, angular momentum] certainly does come up hard against
the suggestion that the black hole has an enormous amount of entropy.
.

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