To calculate total entropy, Hamilton and Polhemus assumed that you add up all the possible states that matter and energy could take at different points in space.

• 为了计算总熵[译者注：黑洞中的混乱度]，汉密尔顿和波尔希莫斯假定，能通过将物质与能量在所有地点的可能状态累加起来来计算。