Well you've convinced me that, if Hawking's model is as you say, it's obviously incorrect :P
I don't know if this is just a mathematical simplification that doesn't impact conclusions about existence of EHs and singularties, but it all looks fishy.
I don't know if this is just a mathematical simplification that doesn't impact conclusions about existence of EHs and singularties, but it all looks fishy.
Why? Note that I'm not claiming (and Hawking never claimed) that his model is experimentally verified--that's obviously impossible since Hawking radiation from any black hole we can observe is many orders of magnitude too faint to observe, if it exists and has the intensity predicted by the model. But the model is perfectly self-consistent.
> it all looks fishy
Why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(physics)
Basically, my intuition is more or less in line with this firewall phenomenon and that no particle crosses a true event horizon, even in their own frame, and no certainly no singularity.