The article mentions that everything that curves spacetime emits hawking radiation. Does that also include elementary particles? I'm having a hard time seeing how an electron would decay, or into what.
The article mentions that everything that curves spacetime emits hawking radiation. Does that also include elementary particles? I'm having a hard time seeing how an electron would decay, or into what.
It's got to be quarks or photons.
It's got to be quarks or photons.
In addition to charge, energy and momentum conservation there are other conservation laws that determine how a particle can or can't decay. Lepton number must be conserved, for example. This is also why particle creation happens in matter-antimatter pairs--it conserves those quantities. Either an electron can't decay, or it can decay and there is new physics to be found here.
In addition to charge, energy and momentum conservation there are other conservation laws that determine how a particle can or can't decay. Lepton number must be conserved, for example. This is also why particle creation happens in matter-antimatter pairs--it conserves those quantities.
Either an electron can't decay, or it can decay and there is new physics to be found here.
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