Dear SPF friends:
For the past week or so, motivated by some discussions I was having in the thread at http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/0 ... ys-to.html, regarding my longstanding view that Hawking radiation is one of the most important discoveries to date toward a theory of quantum gravitation, I decided in the words of one of the discussants to not be a "spectator," but to actually develop my thoughts about this in detail. So that is what I have done at:
https://jayryablon.files.wordpress.com/ ... on-1.5.pdf
The abstract is as follows:
We demonstrate how Hawking black hole radiation provides the theoretical foundation for understanding the universally-observed Planck blackbody radiation spectrum. This is based on showing how raising the temperature of a blackbody is synonymous with probing the quantum gravitational / Planck / geometrodynamic vacuum more closely via the Wein displacement law, similarly to how providing more energy in particle physics probes more deeply into the smallest components of matter. Two new experiments are proposed to contradict or fail to contradict these conclusions. The first entails a close examination of the shortest wavelengths of a blackbody spectrum, where a complete cutoff of these wavelengths below a quantified threshold – not merely a very-steep intensity reduction – is predicted. This is a type of photoelectric effect for photons. The second entails testing for predicted time dilations in the vicinity of a radiating blackbody.
At only 16 pages of text, this paper is one of my shortest ever, and I wrote it start to finish over about 72 hours. Now, back to the EPR / Bell business. Maybe.
I welcome your feedback, and if there is nothing fundamentally problematic, I do plan to submit this for publication in short order.
Best to all,
Jay