A travesty of space time – The forgotten Israeli that theorized and changed the study of Black holes – he argued against Hawking who claimed that what is known today as Hawking radiation does not exist. But nonetheless this radiation in named after Hawking and not after Jacob Bekenstein
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One year ago today, died Professor Jacob Bekenstein (16 August 2015). It is only fitting and proper that only yesterday, important publications regarding the scientific claims that the radiation he foresaw has been proved for the first time was reported.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Black-holes-not-completely-bla…
http://www.popsci.com/scientist-thinks-hes-proven-stephen-h…
But in a travesty of scientific fame – it is named Hawking radiation. It should be named Jacob Bekenstein radiation. Since it was the Dr. Bekenstein’s that in the early 1970s, when he was a graduate student at Princeton and got into a feud with Dr. Hawking, the celebrated physicist and expert on black holes.
Jacob Bekenstein, a physicist prevailed in an argument with Stephen Hawking. His ideas revolutionized the study of black holes, and our understanding regarding the nature of space-time itself.
“Dr. Bekenstein suggested that the black hole’s entropy, a measure of the disorder or wasted energy in a system, was proportional to the area of a black hole’s event horizon, the spherical surface in space from which there is no return. According to accepted physical laws, including Dr. Hawking’s own work, neither entropy nor the area of a black hole could ever decrease.”
“Dr. Hawking denounced the idea. According to classical physics, anything with entropy had to have a temperature, and anything with a temperature — from a fevered brow to a star — must radiate heat and light with a characteristic spectrum. But a black hole could not radiate, and thus it could have no temperature and therefore no entropy.”
“Afraid he had made a mistake, Dr. Hawking, as he wrote in his book “A Brief History of Time,” kept his calculation quiet at first. “I was afraid,” he said, “that if Bekenstein found out about it, he would use it as a further argument to support his ideas about the entropy of black holes, which I still did not like”
It should be known as Bekenstein radiation but it is supposed to be called called Bekenstein-Hawking radiation but now only Hawking radiation.
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