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		dist-epoch 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much soo... > Pairs of particles appear spontaneously. One falls into the gravitational field, losing energy. That's not really true. Even Hawking admitted that's it's a simplification he did for his popular science book of what really is going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVssUb0MsA

leptons 8 months ago [–]

Hawking never knew "what really is going on". He wrote some nice hypotheses, but he never knew for sure, and was not ever close to knowing.

MattPalmer1086 8 months ago | [–]

But he did know the simplification was wrong.

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