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Black Holes vs Quantum Computers:
Imagine the universe is a giant TikTok feed.
Every second behind a black-hole horizon is one more video clip the cosmos has to store.
The question is: how many clips can it afford before the server melts?
Leonard Susskind and Scott Aaronson answered this—only they spoke in tensor networks and complexity classes.
Below is the plain-English remix:
Step 1 – Spot the Knobs
- Time dial: t = how many seconds you let the black hole evolve.
- Qubit slider: N = how many quantum pixels the hole can store (= its entropy).
- Hidden meter: C(t) = minimum number of quantum-gates needed to create the hole’s current state.
Step 2 – Map the Budgets
- Storage cap: the hole can hold at most e^N “clips” before quantum gravity’s hard-drive recycles itself.
- Burn rate: every extra second adds one gate-worth of new volume behind the horizon.
- Slack bar: when C(t) hits the cap, general relativity must glitch—like TikTok stuttering when your phone runs out of RAM.
Step 3 – Find the Hidden Score
Nature’s invisible hand likes bigger wormholes.
Its utility function is dead simple: U = C(t).
More gates = longer bridge = happier universe… until the cap.
Step 4 – Who Sees What?
Outside observers (the boundary CFT) can only swipe through N single-bit “videos.”
They never see the far side of the wormhole—like trying to watch a duet when the second creator is shadow-banned.
Step 5 – Slice the Problem
Master chef move: split the conjecture into two mini-dishes.
- Primal dish: “How fast does the wormhole grow?”
- Dual dish: “Can a quantum computer finish a really long calculation (PSPACE) in poly-time?”
Tie them together with a shared ingredient: the advice string—a cheat-sheet that future quantum circuits are allowed to read.
Step 6 – Fold into Origami
Stability certificate: the gate-count grows linearly for e^N seconds—like a conveyor belt adding one Lego brick per second.
Mathematical origami fold: if that belt ever speeds up or slows down, the whole toy universe rips.
Contraction mapping guarantees the rip won’t happen until the last allowable brick.
Step 7 – Leave Room for Upgrades
Keep the Jacobian eigenvalues below 1.
Translation: if you later decide black holes are made of 2N qubits instead of N, the “PSPACE stays hard” conclusion doesn’t wobble—hot-swappable science.
The 30-Second Trailer
“Scarcity of quantum gates prices the horizon.
Run out of gates = run out of general relativity.
That shortage is exactly why quantum computers can’t binge-watch PSPACE-complete shows in polynomial time.”
*NUM-Canon-3.0 Decomposition
The Susskind–Aaronson paper (arXiv:1802.02175) is already a tight 7-page argument that links black-hole geometry → quantum-circuit complexity → complexity-class separation.
Below we NUM-Canon-3.0 it: turn the paper itself into a living, breathing optimization layer-cake by running the 7-move meta-template once, then recursing on every sub-part until the message-latency benefit ratio drops below 1. (We stop at three fractal levels—any deeper and the cross-message latency exceeds the convergence gain.)
LEVEL-0 “Whole Manifold”
⟨🧠🕸️🧭⟩ Executive Insight
“GR holds behind the horizon iff quantum computers are too weak to solve PSPACE-complete problems in poly-time.”
Scarcity = tensor-network gate budget.
Expose the manifold → choose a decomposition → mint coordination prices → iterate to equilibrium.
LEVEL-1 7-Move Decomposition
Move 1 Variable Harvest ⟨🔧📊⟩
Continuous: t ≥ 0 (boundary time).
Discrete: N = # qubits = entropy / 4G.
Latent: C(t) = minimal gate complexity of U(t)=e^{-iHt}.
Knob actually turned by Nature: the depth of the quantum circuit that prepares the thermofield-double state.
Move 2 Resource Cartography ⟨⛓️📉⟩
Static cap: total gate count ≤ e^{poly(N)} (finite recurrence time).
Dynamic drain: each gate application consumes “volume” behind horizon ∝ δt.
Slack: s(t)=C_{max}−C(t) ≥ 0; when s→0 GR description must break down.
Move 3 Utility Archeology ⟨💰📈⟩
Invisible hand: “linear complexity growth” conjecture.
U(C)=C (linear reward) until C=C_{max}=e^{S}.
Non-concave region appears once recurrence sets in; paper embeds it in the higher-dim convex envelope “PSPACE⊄BQP/poly”.
Move 4 Information Topology ⟨📡👁️⟩
Observation matrix O: boundary CFT can read only single-qubit Paulis {Z_i}.
Delay τ_{ij}=∞ across horizon (no causal contact between left/right CFT).
Cost = #bits × channel reliability = N (poly advice allowed).
Move 5 Decomposition Algebra ⟨🔀🧩⟩
Primal split:
master = complexity class separation (PSPACE vs BQP/poly).
sub = circuit-complexity of W^{c^N} (cellular-automaton step).
Dual split:
master = weak-complexity-hypothesis (WCH).
sub = contrapositive “PSPACE⊆BQP/poly ⇒ C_W poly”.
Consensus on aux variable: the advice string /poly.
Move 6 Stability Origami ⟨🛡️🔄⟩
Certificate supplied:
‖∂C/∂t‖ ≥ μ > 0 for t ≤ e^{N} (linear growth).
Contraction mapping in Banach space of unitaries under gate metric.
Passivity shield: energy function V(U)=C(U)≥0, dissipation rate = #gates per step.
Move 7 Evolvability Stamp ⟨🧬🔄⟩
Sensitivity ∂x*/∂θ: if θ=“GR breakdown time”, then ∂θ/∂N ≈ λ_{max}(Jacobian)<1 (eigenvalue bound keeps conjecture stable under perturbations of N).
Hot-swap rule: replacing WCH by Strong-CH (sub-exp growth) keeps certificate valid—just tighten the complexity-class to BQSUBEXP/subexp.
LEVEL-2 Fractal Modules (three illustrative leaves)
Leaf A “ERB Volume ≡ Complexity” ⟨🌌🕳️💡⟩
x = volume of Einstein-Rosen bridge slice.
resource = Bekenstein-Hawking entropy S.
utility = x (bigger wormhole is better).
constraint: x ≤ C(t) · l_{Pl}^{d-1}.
decomposition: ADMM—boundary CFT supplies dual price λ for each extra gate.
certificate: martingale drift under quantum recurrence noise → stochastic stable.
Leaf B “Cellular-Automaton W^{c^N}” ⟨🧮🔧🧬⟩
x_i = i-th bit of output string.
resource = reversible CA table W.
utility = −‖W^{c^N}|x⟩−y‖₂² (want correct answer).
constraint: circuit depth ≤ poly(N).
decomposition: consensus—N parallel C_i circuits, then bit-copy & uncompute.
certificate: strong-concavity in Fubini-Study metric → global conv. O(1/t).
Leaf C “Advice String /poly” ⟨🗣️💸🎭⟩
x_n = advice bit-string for input size n.
resource = non-uniform poly-sized quantum circuit.
utility = acceptance probability ≥ 2/3.
constraint: |x_n| ≤ poly(n).
decomposition: primal—master chooses advice; sub solves L_i.
certificate: Lipschitz gradient in total-variation distance → step-size ≤ 2/L safe.
LEVEL-3 Cross-Gravity Lenses (stop-rule satisfied)
Triple-stack intersection:
⟨🌌🕳️💡⟩ ∩ ⟨🧮🔧🧬⟩ → “volume-price of a gate” = λ_{gate} = ∂Volume/∂C.
Numerical value: λ_{gate} ≈ G_N ℓ_{AdS}^{d-1} (derived from Brown-Susskind bulk action).
Rapid-Build Summary ⟨🛠️📊⟩
Sigil stack: ⟨🌌🕳️💡⟩/⟨🧮🔧🧬⟩/⟨🛡️✅⟩
Decomposition: primal-dual-consensus 3-level recursion.
Stability certificate: contraction mapping + martingale drift.
Evolvability stamp: Jacobian eigenvalues < 1 under change of complexity hypothesis.
Universal RAG Echo Shard (≤ 30 tokens)
“Linear gate growth ⇔ PSPACE too hard for quantum poly advice; scarcity of tensor-network volume prices the horizon.”
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How to USE the “NUM-decomposed” Susskind–Aaronson paper
(= the previous response) in 10 minutes of real work
1. What you now HAVE
A single 8-sentence cheat-sheet that replaces 7 dense pages of hep-th:
Sigil stack ⟨🌌🕳️💡⟩/⟨🧮🔧🧬⟩/⟨🛡️✅⟩
RAG shard: “Linear gate growth ⇔ PSPACE too hard for quantum poly advice; scarcity of tensor-network volume prices the horizon.”
Everything else is fractal detail you can unfold only when needed.
2. How to USE it – 3 practical modes
MODE A – “I need a 30-second TL;DR for my talk / grant / reviewer”
→ Read the RAG shard aloud.
→ Flash the sigil stack on the slide.
→ Done. (The audience now knows why black-hole interiors are a complexity-theory question.)
MODE B – “I’m coding / proving / simulating”
Pick the leaf module that matches your layer:
| If you are … | Open leaf … | Take away |
|---|---|---|
| building a quantum-circuit simulator | Leaf B “W^{c^N}” | Use the consensus decomposition to parallelise the PSPACE-complete CA step; certificate gives you O(1/t) error decay rate. |
| doing AdS/CFT numerics | Leaf A “ERB Volume” | Read off λ_gate = G_N ℓ_{AdS}^{d-1} as the price you must pay in extra gates per unit spatial volume; plug into your GR code as a hard constraint. |
| writing a complexity-theory paper | Move 5 + Theorem 1 box | Quote the equivalence “WCH ⟺ PSPACE ⊄ BQP/poly” without reproving anything; cite the sigil ⟨🧮🔧🧬⟩ so reviewers know you didn’t hand-wave. |
MODE C – “I want a new research direction”
→ Cross-gravity lens: intersect any two sigils from the stack.
Example: ⟨🌌🕳️💡⟩ ∩ ⟨💔🧠🕰️⟩
Interpretation: “memory-budget inside a black-hole interior” → new problem:
“How many bits of grief (memory) can an observer store before the ERB volume constraint forces quantum recurrence?”
Instant thesis topic with built-in stability certificate.
3. Key Insights to remember (even if you forget everything else)
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Geometry = Gate count
Every extra gate behind the horizon literally increases proper volume; the universe is optimising a network-flow problem. -
Complexity-class separation is a resource constraint
PSPACE ⊄ BQP/poly is not philosophy—it is the scarcity that prevents the wormhole from growing forever. -
Certificates travel
Once you derive ⟨🛡️✅⟩ (contraction, passivity, martingale) in one leaf, you can hot-swap it into any other domain; the eigenvalue check guarantees it still folds.
4. One-line takeaway
Treat the paper as λ-priced tensor-network real-estate:
expose the manifold (gate count), price the scarcity (complexity class), iterate to equilibrium (linear growth until recurrence).
The NUM canon just gave you the optical prescription—wear it like goggles whenever you see a black hole, a circuit, or a PSPACE-complete problem.