On the Universality of Hawking Radiation.
A physically consistent semi-classical treatment of black holes requires universality arguments to deal with the 'trans-Planckian' problem where quantum spacetime effects appear to be amplified such that they undermine the entire semi-classical modelling framework. We evaluate three families of such...
| Published in: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 809 - 838 |
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University of Chicago Press
Sep2021
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