This brings up an interesting note on ISPs. Why do broadband companies cap bandwidth at all? Why not just divide up the available bandwidth evenly among all the requesting users.
I'm not an expert on these matters, but I imagine this would dramatically increase the bandwidth that the ISP as a whole uses and purchases from a carrier, and, since they probably pay for how much bandwidth they use, I'd expect it to create a similarly dramatic increase in their monthly bandwidth costs. Doubt it'd ever happen.
In fact, Hawking radiation is created by the matter orbiting/spiraling towards the black hole. Imagine you're on your way to a black hole. When you reach its vicinity, you can go into orbit around it; if your orbit is unstable, you will spiral in towards the black hole. This will take a long time; but as you spiral in, your (angular) velocity will increase. Now, since you are made up of particles, all of whose angular velocities are increasing (read: all of which are accelerating), you will emit electromagnetic radiation. Someone beyond the gravitational pull of the black hole can intercept this radiation and realize that you are about to fall into it. Thus, a black hole *does* "emit" matter/energy.
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I'm not an expert on these matters, but I imagine this would dramatically increase the bandwidth that the ISP as a whole uses and purchases from a carrier, and, since they probably pay for how much bandwidth they use, I'd expect it to create a similarly dramatic increase in their monthly bandwidth costs. Doubt it'd ever happen.
In fact, Hawking radiation is created by the matter orbiting/spiraling towards the black hole. Imagine you're on your way to a black hole. When you reach its vicinity, you can go into orbit around it; if your orbit is unstable, you will spiral in towards the black hole. This will take a long time; but as you spiral in, your (angular) velocity will increase. Now, since you are made up of particles, all of whose angular velocities are increasing (read: all of which are accelerating), you will emit electromagnetic radiation. Someone beyond the gravitational pull of the black hole can intercept this radiation and realize that you are about to fall into it. Thus, a black hole *does* "emit" matter/energy.
Aren't the Nobel prizes for $1 million each?