Juliet Zhong

Author’s Note: Hawking’s Paradox: Answered by Two Theories consists of 18 chapters divided into four parts. This preprint presents an abbreviated version of the second theory. Interested publishers are welcome to contact the author through this website.       Resolving Hawking's Information Paradox Within Established Physics   Juliet Zhong Independent Researcher 8 July 2026 | ORCID: 0009-0006-5099-3671 AI research Tool: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini     Abstract This work re-examines Hawking’s black hole information paradox entirely within the framework of established physics. By integrating general relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and information theory, this work argues that Hawking’s information paradox need not constitute a fundamental paradox: the apparent contradiction arises from conflating inaccessible information with destroyed information. Hawking radiation is not interpreted as particles escaping fr...

The preprint version is available on SSRN: A Unified Framework for Quantum Mechanics and Relativity: The Interface Between Quantum States and Spacetime Geometry. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7088820   A Unified Framework for Quantum Mechanics and Relativity The Interface Between Quantum States and Spacetime Geometry     Juliet Zhong Independent Researcher, London, United Kingdom, July 2026 ORCID: 0009-0006-5099-3671 | AI research Tool: Claude, ChatGPT Abstract Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two most successful physical theories of the twentieth century, yet their conceptual frameworks appear deeply incompatible. The standard formulation of this incompatibility holds that quantum superposition of matter states generates an indeterminate energy-momentum tensor, which cannot serve as a unique source for the Einstein field equations, requiring either the quantisation of spacetime geometry or some other fundamental modification of existin...

Author’s Note: Hawking’s Paradox: Answered by Two Theories consists of 18 chapters divided into four parts. This preprint presents Preface and Chapter One of the first theory. Interested publishers are welcome to contact the author through this website.       Hawking's Paradox Answered by Two Theories       Juliet Zhong Independent Researcher | London, United Kingdom | July 2026 |  ORCID: 0009-0006-5099-3671 | AI research Tool: Claude, ChatGPT         [Preface] Cosmology and A Fish           In his masterpiece A Brief History of Time , Stephen Hawking opens with a story about a man lecturing on cosmology. When he finished, an old woman in the back stood up. ‘What you have described is nonsense,’ she said. ‘The world is a flat plate resting on the back of a giant tortoise.’ The wise man smiled indulgently. ‘And what is the tortoise standing...