@monkeyborg Anyone else remember #Hawking's last #AMA?

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

 
#Mathematicians Prove #Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme #BlackHoles
@QuantaMagazine: For decades, #extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new #proof reveals otherwise.

https://QuantaMagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-hawking-wrong-about-extremal-black-holes-20240821/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal_black_hole

Any time you find yourself lamenting that the conditions in your office aren't ideal for the new writing project upon which you've embarked, or that your typing fingers aren't working properly, consider Stephen Hawking and all that he was able to accomplish with a very narrow route for making his ideas become words on a page. I often think of his fortitude and persistence. What a phenomenal inspiration he was to so many people. #writing #science #persistence #hawking

10 paradoxes. You may recognize a few of them. https://archive.ph/IaBat

Stephen #Hawking showed that black holes aren't stable entities in #spacetime, but gradually decay through the emission of radiation.

The quantum process that powers this Hawking radiation arises based on the difference in the quantum vacuum near and far from the black hole's event horizon.

For the first time, a new study suggests that Hawking radiation doesn't depend on the event horizon at all, and should be present for all masses within #spacetime.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/hawking-radiation-black-holes/

Highly recommend this interview with Sara Petrosilla about her new book Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture. #medieval #medievodons @medievodons #history #WomensHistory #hawking @histodons
https://newbooksnetwork.com/hawking-women

Lab-grown black hole may prove Stephen Hawking's most challenging theory right

By using a chain of atoms to simulate a black hole's event horizon, researchers have shown that Hawking radiation may exist just as the late physicist described.

#Science #physics #Hawking
https://www.livescience.com/synthetic-electron-black-hole-matches-hawking-prediction