History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 24, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Effect of Vacuum Fluctuations in a Black Hole
In 19 81, stephen hawking made a calculation of the effect of vacuum fluctuations on black holes. It was an approximation based on taking a classical box and a quantum field inside. And so we don't know whether hawking radiation really happens - although at this point the theory is sufficiently well developed that it probably does. But i got convinced about five years ago that black hole gravitational waves are actually real. The way they work depends on the fact that there are two black holes and they merge into one spherical eventorisen. That's not something which would happen if it wasn't for einstein's formal notion of sarmentizing theory. So to observe that would go
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