Recent content by matmos101

So Hawking radiation solves a thermodynamic contradiction posed by black holes, and if the particles produced are gravitationally bound (even though they've escaped the event horizon), they no longer serve that purpose? OK. I probably should have left that question out of this topic and just...

Just click the link I gave to the technology review article. It explains it more clearly.

Apparently I'm not the only one to think of this. http://technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26726/?p1=blogs

I am not in any way suggesting that the nucleus of an atom is a BH. Nor would I care to speculate as to whether quarks or electrons might be PBHs. My reference to a "gravitic atom" was an attempt to provide an analogy only for illustrative purposes. I guess it's done the opposite. I was...

"If they're bound, they don't become 'real,' they stay virtual and thus have no effect---which Is what I meant by 'uninteresting.' You're right, I could have come up with a better term :)" Sounds like we're not talking about the same thing. If a pair of virtual particles appears, and one...

Thanks so much for your response! I've done a bit more research into the derivation of Hawking radiation, and so I accept your answer to my second question. I'd dispute your characterization of gravitationally bound Hawking particles as "uninteresting" (The idea of particles having...

I'd like to consider a primordial black hole in the absence of Hawking radiation. When you consider the case of a primordial black hole with a Schwarzschild radius on the same order as the radius of a proton, I calculate its mass to be at around 6.75x10^11 Kg. If I then calculate the...