(urth) Problematic element in chronology - Red Giants

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
> On 5/29/2011 3:14 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:

>> Maybe it's my error, but it was some very similar title mentioned
>> by Wolfe, I will try to find what it was exactly. More
>> special books by Hawking appeared earlier, I've read Hawking and
>> Ellis on black holes in 70-es -
>> /Hawking/, S.W.; /Ellis/, G.F.R. (/1973/). The Large Scale Structure of
>> Space-Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
> I'm also sure that Wolfe read Hakwing in the 70's, because Hawking 
> discovered that small black holes evaporate in 1974, disappearing in a 
> final burst of radiation. They could be formed in the big bang, but 
> wouldn't have lasted until the present day, unless they happened to find 
> their way to a place of high density matter to increase rate elementary 
> particles managed to hit their tiny event horizons. A place like a stellar 
> interior.

I don't think the issue of small black holes matters to BotNS - the black 
hole described is absorbtive, and thus large enough to have a low 
temperature.  In the context of black holes, there's actually not much 
margin between the temperature of a stellar interior and that of outer 
space.  They are either colder or hotter than either, and those that persist 
are certainly colder.

- Gerry Quinn