From: helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de   
      
   In article <32e38ebd-c8dd-4cad-ae93-995f615b595c@googlegroups.com>,   
   "Robert L. Oldershaw"  writes:   
      
   > Researchers have looked and looked. No signal consistent with   
   > "Hawking radiation" has ever been observed. So much faith in something   
   > that only exists on paper!   
      
   As Jonathan pointed out, few have looked, since we don't know of any   
   objects from which this should be expected.  One could of course look   
   for signals of exploding black holes, as the Hawking radiation increases   
   rapidly for small-mass black holes, but there is no convincing reason   
   why these should exist and be evaporating just now.   
      
   > And this without any credible theory of   
   > quantum gravity.   
      
   Hawking radiation involves quantum mechanics in curved spacetime, not   
   quantum gravity.   
      
   > Wouldn't some healthy skepticism, or at least an   
   > acknowledgement of uncertainty, be a bit more respectable from a   
   > scientific standpoint?   
      
   Not in this case.  Scepticism is sometimes harmful, as when people doubt   
   firm conclusions for no good reason.   
      
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