Re: EP and Unruh - effect (Layman)

We Pretty wrote:

"That probably is the temperature I meant. Because the Unruh -
radiation is thermal does not this mean that for any energy e,
the probability that an accelerating body will be hit by a photon
with energy e, is non-zero. Because some conservation laws
no photon can smash up a proton. Does the radiation contain
energetic antiprotons that could do the smashing ?
My question should perhaps have been what effects low temperature
thermal radiation has on matter. Answer is something like:
Not much. "

In fact the relevant conservation law for the evaporation is
conservation of energy. The point is that the matter in
bodies are under constant thermal radiation. It will be in
thermal equilibrium with the Unruh - radiation and therefore
radiate energy as long as the Unruh - radiation is present.
When you look at a planet from far away (from whichever
direction you want and in as flat space-time as you want),
you see radiation and energy coming from the planet. The only
plausible source for this energy is the mass of the planet.
Therefore planets evaporate. "How" the evaporation happens
may be unknown. The formulas for the Hawking - radiation and
for Unruh - radiation are similar because they essentially
are the same stuff. I will try to make that statement more
precise.

I would like to have this either proven false or I would
like it to be in popular science books with black holes.

We Pretty

(I was confused, I though that matter can only absorb radiation if
it it is energetic enough to ionize it but that is wrong:
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/t-17102_thermal_radiation_in_QM.html
I wrote "There seems to be some controversy about some assumptions."
but
there is also confusion on some basic in the newsgroups.)

.

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