Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

PBS Space Time · Oct 19, 2026 · 16m

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If you have perfect knowledge of every single particle in the universe, can you use the laws of physics to rewind all the way back to the Big Bang? Is the entire history of the universe perfectly knowable? Or has information somehow lost along the way?

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