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Will the increasing rate of expansion of the universe eventually result in Hawking Radiation suddenly occurring everywhere?
The universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. Virtual particles are being created and then destroyed everywhere at every moment. As space expands even faster, will a time come when these ...
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Is it possible that the Big Bang was caused by virtual particle creation?
As far as I understand, it is understood that throughout the universe there exists, what is known as, a quantum field from which, due to its fluctuations, temporary (pairs of) virtual particles ...