Entropy of the Limit Remnant: How Much Disorder Survives Evaporation
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: At the remnant mass of 8.659e+10 kilograms the entropy is 1.989e+38 in units of Boltzmann's constant, or 2.870e+38 bits. A hole one hundred times heavier carries 1.989e+42 in the same units, ten thousand times more, displaying the quadratic law. A stellar-mass progenitor exceeds the remnant's budget by nearly forty orders of magnitude, so a remnant that stores everything must do so in degrees of freedom that the horizon entropy does not count, an extra assumption that should be stated as such rather than smuggled in. The value of the calculation is that it separates two claims that are often blurred. Computed from stated assumptions, not measured.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225803494
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