Not sure how your response relates to pyramids in general, but I need to ask: In physics, how would you drop 1 kg of mass into a black hole and extract the exawatts from it? Moreso, where would you physically get a black hole from that would permit you to traverse its firewall?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a simple physics problem. The great pyramid of Giza weighs 5.5M tons. > 1 kg of mass dropped into a black hole converts to 9 x 10^16 J or 21.5 > megatons. The lifetime of a black hole is on the order of the mass cubed in > Planck units. A Planck mass is 22 micrograms. So the pyramid weighs 2.5 x > 10^17 Planck units and would live about 10^52 units of 5.4 x 10^-44 > seconds, or about a year. It would convert mass to Hawking radiation energy > at a rate of 300 kg/s, or 30 exawatts of hard gamma rays. > > This is about 300 times the energy received from the sun. Since radiation > increases with the fourth power of temperature, this would raise the > Earth's surface temperature from 290 K to 1200 K before it went out with a > final 100 billion megaton blast. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 12:21 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote: > >> John. I give up. How many and when and where's the physical evidence >> thereof? It's all speculative. Interesting, but speculative. It may also >> just have been the temples of the elite, hogging the limelight and social >> power. Not disimilar to what we observe today. >> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at 9:55 AM, Quan Tesla wrote: >>> >>> Did some reading. aboyt Dyson spheres. Fascinating concept. Thanks for >>> the headsup. Down to Earth, the following is AI's version of our state of >>> civilization. Q: If less than 10% of the global population achieves 0.75, >>> does that mean the whole civilization did? Nope. We're still in the Type >>> I's infancy. Lots of opportunity to really ramp this up. >>> >>> >>> How many watts did the pyramids put out :) >>> >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7ff992c51cca9e36-M7996e2b1dd85960ed7cafb5f> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7ff992c51cca9e36-M4caf93a0fca1146427854bac Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
