Meaning Freed

Back to physics and never
Being absolutely lost,
As in, zeroth principle,

As in, unitarity,
As in Susskind’s message scratched
Onto a charcoal briquette

That is then burned, the message
Up in smoke, but encoded
In the combustion, not lost,

Not truly lost, never really,
Only redistributed.
Even eaten by black holes,

Information’s never lost,
Never falls, floats along on
Holographic principle.

Gravity on bulk, never
On boundary, so never
Any information lost.

No surface gravity, but
Gravitation in the bulk.
Gravity as emergent

Somehow. Information saved
In principle, but never
Possible to reconstruct.

Wait orders of magnitude,
Black holes will evaporate,
And there won’t be anything.

But nothing, nothing is lost.
It’s just our limitation,
That we can’t perceive what’s real.

Mm-hmm. Beyond the value
Of prediction, our greatest,
Most magical perception,

What’s the meaning of saying
Information’s never lost?
Meaning, it means meaning’s lost.