Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem
Lee Winter writes:
> The issue is that he predicted the "evaporation" of black holes by
> some quantum events near the event horizon. But if you look at it
> carefully you have some quantum recipe for depositing some exotic
> (negative mass) objects into the black hole. It doesn't have to be
> matter it could be radiation. But that concept has it's own issues:
> are we talking about negative frequency or negative wavelength or
> both? Negative frequency is nonsense. Negative wavelength needs
> several extra dimensions, which gets complicated pretty quick!
That is not how Hawking radiation works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#Emission_process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect
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John Hasler
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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