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New take on Hawking Radiation

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Post Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:11 pm

New take on Hawking Radiation

This is a little theory i put together a few months ago when i was explaining to my girlfriend how black holes can be used for time travel-

Now, most people know about Hawking radiation (okay, maybe only most physics nuts know about it), the process whereby a black hole evaporates via the creation of a particle/antiparticle pair at the event horizon, and the antiparticle falls in.

However, gravitational distortion surrounding the black hole produces time dilation in accordance with general relativity, which prevents any particle from crossing the event horizon in a finite time frame.

So, theoretically, the antiparticle produced by the hawking radiation process would never actually cross the event horizon of the black hole in a finite absolute time frame, meaning that the mass of the black hole remains constant.

Can anyone see any glaring flaws in this theory? I couldn't find anyone to peer-review the idea, so i thought to post it here any let TLR's theoretical physics buffs rip it to pieces

Post Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:50 pm

The only flaw I can see in it is that it's complex physics, I'm terrible in physics and pretty much everything past the particle/anti-particle part went way over my head.

Post Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:53 pm

Thought: what if the pair formed ON the event horizion? Or, perhaps, they came into existance a few nanometers apart, one inside the event horizion, one outside it. Since these are 'virtual' particles, they don't exist before this occurs, so one is made inside the black hole while the other escapes. Of course, this is conjecture based on physics books and magazines that I've read.

MK

Post Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:12 pm

I haven't been really heavy into physics since 1972.
BUT...
I've evolved to the point of realizing what "temporal displacement" means.

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