"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ...

Well part of the problems (as I see them, someone correct me if I'm wrong)
is that the larger a black hole is, the longer it takes to evaporate, to the
point that the largest would take longer than the expected life of the
universe. That said, I suppose if they still exist, so would the universe,
so not really sure how works. :-)

But I could see it evaporating so slowly that the particles would spread out
"infinitely" and by the time it does fully evaporate, there basically would
be such a low density that basically the definition of the word universe
ceases to have any meaning.

Also, if particles are far enough that they never interact, what happens to
"time". Can time even exist if nothing is happening. (i.e. if there is no
way to measure the movement between particles (since they're too far away to
interact) there can be no concept of a clock and according to some theories
time simply ceases to exist.



So then, in the end does a black hole have a finite 'size' beyond which
another big bang has to occur, releasing all that energy again.

Brian


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