Oh, right, looking at your previous posts, I see it is your theme of tonight - carry on.As for Hawking Radiation, it involves black holes, and virtual particles.
What you have to imagine (that is, believe the physicists who make this bullshit up, I swear) is that pairs of particles are popping into existence all the time due to quantum fluctuations. A positron and an electron, say.
If they are in empty space, they soon annihilate themselves again, but if they are next to the horizon of a black hole, one of the pair can be captured while the other escapes. This is hawking radiation.
(What you have to imagine (that is, believe the physicists who make this bullshit up, I swear) is that pairs of particles are popping into existence all the time due to quantum fluctuations. A positron and an electron, say.
If they are in empty space, they soon annihilate themselves again, but if they are next to the horizon of a black hole, one of the pair can be captured while the other escapes. This is hawking radiation.
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Sun 15 Nov 2009, 11:43,
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Also, interestinglythe smaller a black hole is, the greater the rate of evaporation. So a large hole emits very little Hawking radiation, and a tiny little hole will kill itself almost immediately.
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boris the spider,
Sun 15 Nov 2009, 13:33,
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