Matt. I had an alert. Please check for spoofing from your side.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 :)
>>>>
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