Why “Hawking” is being discussed
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A theory is: blackholes give off Hawking radiation at the end of their lives. I'm of course, oversimplifying things for a fun thought experiment. Everyone wonders about reincarn…
by itsalwaysgood · Sep 25, 2026
I also don’t get what the problem is. Claude’s plan mode is great, especially when you add interviewing into the equation. It means I can get to a point where I’m confident all…
by bartread · Sep 25, 2026
We can play with words all day, but in the sense of a particle entering into the event horizon of a black hole and then at some point in the future exiting from inside of the ev…
by Maxatar · Sep 25, 2026
> I think that with Hawking radiation you have quantum entanglement of two pairs. You have a matter-antimatter pair production near the horizon. When the antimatter falls into t…
by cyberax · Sep 25, 2026
Minor quibbles: Hawking radiation has a blackbody spectrum, so we get a variety of wavelengths, with a peak determined by the size of the hole. The outgoing particles should eve…
by auntienomen · Sep 25, 2026
Strangely, it is _not_ the instrinsic curvature of spacetime that produces Hawking radiation. There's a variation on Hawking radiation -- called Unruh radiation -- experienced b…
by auntienomen · Sep 25, 2026
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