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This is the Conversation Forum for Hawking Radiation << hawking radiation Nice! >> Subject: Too little too late Posted Jun 16, 2001 by Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking   Posting 1 I think you gave a fine qualitatively (if that's the correct word) description about Hawking radiation, but it leaves me with a question. You do not mention the energy of the escaping particles, and while this surely diminishes the mass of the black hole, it is probably nothing compared with the mass that the black hole absorbs. I am afraid this effect will be negligible until the whole universe consists of black holes. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Too little too late Posted Oct 25, 2001 by Jack, A Roo (1*8*6)-(((4*(3!))/4)=42 [Keeper of Macropods, Marsupials, Misplaced Left Parenthesis, & other things Australian] This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 Hawking radiation is used to explain the lack of black holes of sub-stellar masses which were supposedly created in the Big Bang. Smaller black holes evaporate faster than large ones, since smaller black holes have less influence on the spacetime surrounding them. An analogy would be a small pond vs. a large lake. With a steady evaporation rate and no forcast of steady rain (infalling mass/energy), the larger body of water has more of a chance to catch rain from a brief shower than the small pond, and also having less substance evaporates faster. Cheers. Conversation list Conversation list

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