AMA | October 2024

6151.959 - 6175.386 Sean Carroll

You've heard about Unruh radiation. William Unruh, who's still around, still at the University of British Columbia. did a wonderful thing in the 1970s after Stephen Hawking showed that black holes evaporate, Unruh did what every good physicist dreams of doing, which is to sort of distill that idea down to its essence. And, you know, he asked, like, what is the simplest version of this?