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Listener Questions 37: quantum cats, heat death and dark multiverses!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Probability of Black Hole Evaporation

If black holes evaporate into matter particles, wouldn't these matter particles flying around eventually stick together or be attracted to each other by gravity? Then then you get more stuff and then suddenly you have like new planets and new stars. But that's not kind of like it seems very unlikely that we'll get to that point. So what thermodynamic says is that the most likely outcome is that things stay smooth. We actually talked about the probability of this kind of thing happening in our Boltzbin brain episode. Thermodynamics doesn't say it's impossible. It just says it's unlikely because that would effectively be decreasing entropy.

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