First let me just say that I love your podcasts and look forward to sync'ing up my IPod every Monday so that I can listen to your podcasts at work.

Now to my questions...

I'm still not clear on the whole black hole evaporation process. If you have these particle pairs that are randomly being generated where one goes into the black hole and the other isn't, how does it evaporate if it is still consuming particles?

Thank you,
Phil M.