(November 17, 2013 at 3:12 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Interesting that blackholes emit radiation, I thought it's so dense that nothing can escape it. I'll look it up. Good stuff.
That's part of what makes black holes unstable, in the sense that they will eventually evaporate completely. In the case of Hawking radiation, memory's a little dodgy right now but as I recall the principle comes from quantum particle pairs continually popping into existence and then annihilating each other. When they appear in the vicinity of a black hole, one half of the pair falls into it while the other escapes, thus in all essential senses the black hole has emitted the escaping particle while at the same time reduced its mass by the captured one. Something like that anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
