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Old 30-01-2008, 09:29 PM
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Something comes out of nothing everywhere in the Universe all the time. They are 'virtual' particles that exist fleetingly due to quantum effects. It can be measured. Just google Casimir effect.

Hawking has postulated that these particle pairs near a black hole would lead to one being captured by the black hole and the other would then have no way of disappearing by recombining. Matter from nowhere and nowhen!

Bert
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