303 | AMA | February 2025

1893.561 - 1916.639 Sean Carroll

So we're going to do it anyway, but it's harder than you think. OK. So there's an apple. in our region, what happens to it? Well, again, what happens to the apple depends on laws of physics that we don't know the answer to. The apple, we think, has a probability per unit time of spontaneously collapsing to make a black hole. And then that black hole would gradually radiate via Hawking radiation.