The Negative Mass Particle Explanation Is Wrong

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Why would it be that the black hole is evaporating rather than getting larger?

[00:00:03]Cuz from the black hole's perspective, more is just coming in.

[00:00:06]>> Right? Sometimes you'll have people say, "Oh, it absorbed the negative mass particle." That's not right. There there is no negative mass particle. It's not absorbing negative mass and thereby getting lighter. But the difference is that time and space in some sense have switched places inside the black hole.

[00:00:20]So from outside I might say that's a positive energy particle my pair that fell in and it was directed spatially inward in momentum but because of the relativity of space and time in the interior of a black hole you say oh no that was that negative momentum is a negative energy I call that time direction I call the direction which it's moving the time direction and it is imparting negative energy what you're calling negative momentum I'm calling negative energy and uh and that's totally fine. So that you haven't you don't have negative mass particles, you haven't violated anything. It's just the relativity of energy and momentum directly reflects the relativity of space and time. And so you actually absorb in your frame of reference in the interior of the black hole a a negative energy is absorbed and the black hole gets lighter.