The discussion centers on the hypothesis that particles and antiparticles possess gravitational charges of opposite signs, specifically in relation to Hawking radiation. It addresses the inconsistency of virtual antiparticles having an anti-gravitational charge, as they would always be ejected from the Schwarzschild radius, unlike virtual particles which may not be. The conversation highlights that the particle/antiparticle explanation of Hawking radiation is a heuristic rather than a definitive description, emphasizing the necessity of mathematical understanding over simplistic explanations.
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The idea rests on the hypothesis that particles and antiparticles have gravitational charges of opposite sign.
There is a fundamental problem with your question, which is this: the "particle / anti-particle" explanation of Hawking Radiation is not an actual description of what happens. It is a heuristic posited by Hawking himself, who described it as being simply the best he could come up with to explain in English something that really can only be explained in the math.YummyFur said:http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-quantum-vacuum-dark.html
I was wondering if virtual anti particles had a postulated anti gravitational charge if that would be inconsistent with Hawking radiation as virtual anti particles would always be ejected from the vicinity of the Schwarzschild radius whereas virtual particles may or may not be ejected depending on the direction of their momentum.