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Old 21-12-2010, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Kal View Post
Hawking radiation is something completely different, and it doesn't come from the black hole per se, it comes from space just outside the black hole.

Particle/antiparticle pairs form all the time, and those near the event horizon have one of the pair sucked into the black hole. To preserve energy, the particle that falls into the black hole must have negative energy from an outside observers point of view.

From the point of view of no information being exchanged once it crosses the event horizon, this is true though!
Yep .. this is why I agreed with you.
We should pay out on this one !!


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