Undermines· moderateCCC-E017
Eckstein 2023: information loss raises entropy instead of resetting it
- what the source states
- "We show that the assumed loss of degrees of freedom in black holes is not compatible with the quantum notion of entropy." The paper argues that information loss as Penrose describes it "leads to the increase of global entropy," which "undermines the idea of 'entropy renormalisation' needed to match the degrees of freedom on the crossover hypersurface between the aeons," and proposes a unitary variant of CCC in which quantum information is globally preserved.
- what we infer
- A direct published attack on the entropy accounting (CCC-C006), from an author engaged enough to repair rather than dismiss the framework. If the argument holds, CCC's answer to its own motivating question — why each aeon starts with low entropy — fails in its original form, independent of anything in the CMB.
- limitations
- One analysis in a live quantum-gravity controversy; Penrose's information-loss position has its own defenders.
- The proposed unitary variant preserves CCC's observational program, so this record bears on the mechanism, not the sky claims.