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> Pairs of particles appear spontaneously. One falls into the gravitational field, losing energy. That's not really true. Even Hawking admitted that's it's a s
by dist-epoch 1y ago
> Pairs of particles appear spontaneously. One falls into the gravitational field, losing energy.
That's not really true. Even Hawking admitted that's it's a simplification he did for his popular science book of what really is going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVssUb0MsA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVssUb0MsA
- leptons 1y agoHawking never knew "what really is going on". He wrote some nice hypotheses, but he never knew for sure, and was not ever close to knowing.
- computerthings 1y ago[dead]
- MattPalmer1086 1y agoBut he did know the simplification was wrong.