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Black Holes

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Before hawking, there really wasn't a problem. Even roger penrose in that first paper in the sixties, said, ah, that's probably just cause we don't understand quana mechanics. But what happened with hawking s he realized that if you add to the theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity, even a little smidge of quan chanics, in the empty space time around the event horizon, even the tiniest fluctuations that the black hole can steal from that empty space time and also simultaneously radiate away in a way that it evaporates. When it evaporates, it's as though the event horizons yank up, youknow

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