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Can anything be "forgotten" once it's been determined?

For example--can two entangled particles be created, then forced to interact in a way that collapses their wave functions, then sucked into a black hole, without having been observed by anything that isn't sucked into that black hole--does their collapse matter? Does the universe forget it?

If so, then could the whole universe be a reversible computation, once it's summed up from big bang to big ... whatever happens at the end?



This makes me think of dangling pointers and memory leaks.




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