Dark brown depressions
“Stephen Hawking’s greatest legacy – a simple little equation now 50 years old – revealed a shocking aspect of black holes”
This mathematical expression shows the temperature of Hawking radiation given off by a black hole that is not rotating:
T=ℏc3/8πGMk
where T is temperature; ℏ Planck’s constant; c is the speed of light; G is Newton’s constant; M is the mass of the black hole of interest, and k is Boltzmann’s constant.
So let’s unpack that a little…
1. It’s not a shocking equation at all since I had no preconceived notions as to the temperature dependence of a non rotating black hole. No one does or ever did.
2. Having said that, said Hawking radiation and the presence of the rest of the universe would cause the thing to rotate, so it’s a limiting case that doesn’t exist.
And they’ve gone and tied themselves up in knots worrying about the inherent information paradox implied by this non existent limiting case. Fuckwits!
The real effort is in formulating things in algebra in our simple little classical world, and then trying to peruse for meaning in the same.
I say just stop bothering things like black holes with physicists. It must be torture for them.
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