.com.unity Forums - OT: An Existential Dilemma

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Originally posted by Tris:
Hmmm...black holes radiate thermally? I hadn't heard that before. Given that black holes don't let even EM waves out from behind the event horizon, how do they do that?

I myself don't Subscribe to the Hidden Variable Theory, but I think it is a theory. The variables just have to be currently unobservable, it's perfectly possible that we will observe them in the future, with more advanced techniques.

Schroedinger's cat would make the perfect pet. Discuss :-D

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">My apology, I was writing the post ~2AM, wasn't thinking straight. Black holes don't thermal radiate like your conventional matter actually.

I was thinking of Hawking Radiation instead, which is the virtual particle emission mentioned above. The reason I mentioned thermal emission is that historically, it was the nagging concern that if black holes do not radiate, it would be an entropy destroyer of the cosmos, something thermodynamics do not allow. So people think black hole must radiate somehow, and then Hawking Radiation was proposed to solve this.

My apology for the misleading information. I'll edit my previous post appropriately.

And Schroedinger's Cat may or may not be the perfect pet. It depends on what the first observation reveals http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

-Gateway103