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Thanks for the great reply! I guess I'd only read about Hawking radiation with respect to black holes, and never considered its implications on a larger scale.

by grinich 18y ago

Thanks for the great reply! I guess I'd only read about Hawking radiation with respect to black holes, and never considered its implications on a larger scale. Sounds like it has larger implications than I thought. Were you citing a specific paper by Hawking (towing a wormhole)? I'd like to read more.

thwarted 18y ago
I haven't read the Hawking paper in question specifically, but the idea of towing a worm hole around is that you move one end of a worm hole for some period of time at relativistic speeds. Since as you approach c, time slows down, so the stationary end of the worm hole is further in the future than the one that was moved around. It's a pretty stock layman's example of how time travel could be possible and I'm sure Hawking has torn a, er, hole in it some how.