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Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

... Recently we found evidence that spacetime curvature alone without the need for an event horizon leads to black hole evaporation (... this is pair generation !). ...

Great ! Now tell me : what's the implications of this on cosmological spacetime curvature ?

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14734
An upper limit to the lifetime of stellar remnants from gravitational pair production