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A microscopic description of black hole evaporation via holography — mentioned by evanb

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:03:28 GMT

Yeah, I went straight to the static solutions for simplicity of discussion. From the outside, though, is it even in principle possible to tell whether a BH is a stellar-collapse Bh or if it's an eternal Schwarschild vacuum BH? Now we're outside of my realm of expertise. Do I recall properly from my GR class that once stellar collapse begins the outer shell reaches the singularity in a finite time? In that case, I think it does come down to philosophy (if you're staying within GR) or some theory that resolves the singularity to say whether the BH is "made of matter" or not. > I'll assume you…

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A microscopic description of black hole evaporation via holography — mentioned by evanb

Sat, 21 May 2016 16:28:14 GMT

The Gravity Research Foundation's essay contest is one of the most well-known and prestigious essay contests in physics, in which authors are encouraged to synthesize and simplify their technical work into a short, approachable-for-physicists-but-nonexperts work with few equations. A quick perusing of the previous winners http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_year.html shows 't Hooft, Krauss, Smoot, Steinhardt, Wald, Bekenstein, Brout, Englert, Penrose, Hawking, DeWitt. It's taken very seriously. So the chain was really (a bunch of real papers) --> (those authors summarizing what…

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