Leonard Susskind Takes On Hawking Radiation
Posted on 05/30/2019 3:59:10 AM PDT by C19fan
After the first-ever image of a black hole confirmed theories posited by Einstein, it's the late scientist Stephen Hawking's turn to have parts of his life's work vindicated. In a paper published in Nature, scientists say that have verified the scientist's namesake theory, Hawking Radiation, which hypothesized that black holes emit radiation from their surfaces due to a mix of different factors regarding quantum physics and gravity. To verify the theory, scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology turned to what sounds like mad science: creating their own black hole.
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Now Hawking can get a Noble Prize posthumously.
‘Black hole’ = Black hole “analog”
Sound rather than light.
From way down in the article:
“As for Hawking Radiation, the recent experiment provides the strongest evidence for its existence ever documented, but still falls short of absolute proof as no one has ever been able to observe the phenomenon in an actual black hole.”
This reminds me of the kook who got interviewed multiple times by the international media. He was terrified that the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would create a black hole and swallow the Earth. He wanted the whole thing shut down and he was pretty hysterical about it; very upset nobody was taking him seriously. Was he a physicist? Nope, just some guy who the press covered fairly well and, with apparent seriousness.
This was one of the many times where it was obvious that the news was drama and drama is conflict. Disgusting, really.
Hawking postulated that matter that entered into a black hole was destroyed. Physicist (Former plumber from the Bronx) Leonard Susskind for decades argued that matter could neither be created or destroyed.
I believe Hawking radiation was an attempt by Hawking to modify his theory to correct this. So if this radiation is confirmed…that is interesting as it was perceived as a bandaid.
“Now Hawking can get a Noble Prize posthumously.”
Nope. Noble Prize is never awarded posthumously.
Henry Moseley was supposed to get a Nobel Prize for correcting Dmitri Mendeleev periodic table by ordering it according to atomic number instead of mass and also for inventing the first working atomic battery. Moseley was killed by a Turkish sniper at the Battle of Gallipoli. Moseley was nominated for the 1916 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was not awarded to anyone that year, because of Modeley’s death.
It’s a safe bet he won’t win a Noble Prize. He might have had a crack at the Nobel Prize, howsomever.
He had a wonderful mind...that said, he refused to give credit to the Orgin of all that math and science and the mixture of both.
Noble Prizes aren't given posthumously.
The proof is weak with this one
I doubt they created a black hole in the laboratory. One of the problems with making your own black hole is how to turn it off, so it doesn’t continue eating up everything in the room, the city, and the world when you throw it into the trash.
If Hawking is right, a small black hole will decrease in radius as it loses energy by Hawking radiation.
Wasn’t that from an episode of the Outer limits?
Disgusting, really.
During the first test atomic blast at White Sands during WWII, they were afraid it might set the atmosphere on fire, but they did it anyway.
As for micro black holes, it’s my understanding their gravity pull fades quickly with distance and they would be unlikely to grow. Unlikely...
I believe Hawking radiation was an attempt by Hawking to modify his theory to correct this. So if this radiation is confirmed…that is interesting as it was perceived as a bandaid.
Wouldn’t that mean that the matter wasn’t destroyed, but changed forms to radiation?
Yes. Conservation of energy/mass (E=mc2).
kosciusko51 wrote:
Wouldn’t that mean that the matter wasn’t destroyed, but changed forms to radiation?
Yes. Conservation of energy/mass (E=mc2).
Then doesn’t that prove that Hawking was wrong?
Thanks C19fan. I think I just had a bokononist vision because of this topic, although I'm not sanguine about the likelihood that they've done what is claimed. :^)
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