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The error is that, simply because, even if true, that an experiment can't be done for the next 10000 years, this doesn't mean that someone else could think of a

The error is that, simply because, even if true, that an experiment can't be done for the next 10000 years, this doesn't mean that someone else could think of a different experiment that could fulfill the initial prerequisites and provide a workable outcome/answer I think the writer is being too fatalistic on that simply because he/she can't come up with a workable experiment, then no one else can. I think that simply because of all the nonlinearities of "life", we are bound to have someone else come up with maybe a different experiment which answers the question, just picture that there are several, several ways to prove General Relativity with experiments not just "the one"

hanselot 4y ago
tsimionescu 4y ago
At least for cosmic black holes, there is no way to measure the correlation of hawking radiation with the objects composing the black hole unless you can detect and store information about all objects going into the black hole and all radiation coming out, and then look for correlations between these. Even assuming you could store and process this literally stellar amount of information, you would have to be extraordinarily lucky for the correlation to arise immediately. More likely, you would need to do this for the entire lifetime of the black hole, and only after it's (mostly) evaporated could you run the analysis. Even granted the galaxy-sized computer that could do so, you would need to wait a few thousands of billions of years or more to reach that state.