musings of wrath

New Scientist has an article about black holes being the ultimate quantum computers. I started reading the article and thought, neat! Great!

Then I got to the part where it’s not the computer, but the datastream. That is, the black hole is so super-massive that it’s able to eliminate all possibilities but one, speaking in quantum terms, killing Schrodinger’s cat. Then something deep in the pit of my stomach said this is a BAD idea. It sounds crazy, but I don’t think it’s my logical brain thinking it’s bad - it’s my faith.

Black holes represent nothingness, destruction and collapse. Why would we want to “read” the “data” that comes out of one?