(April 1982), "Black holes and everyday physics", General relativity and gravitation 14 no: 4, pages: 355–359, DOI:
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Black holes set a limitation on the number of species of elementary particles—quarks, leptons, neutrinos—which may exist. And black holes lead to a fundamental limitation on the rate at which information can be transferred for given message energy by any communication system.
— Jacob Bekenstein
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About Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein (May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2012) and the Einstein Prize (2015).
About Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein (May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2012) and the Einstein Prize (2015).
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