... the area of the horizon in Planck units.Furthermore, it tells us that the micro-degrees of freedom can absorb,thermalize, and eventually re-emit all information in the form of Hawkingradiation. ... real proton propagating through space-time is not the simple struc-tureless bare proton. The interactions cause it to make virtual transitions from the bare proton to a state with an X-boson and ... singularity is approached. From the proton’s viewpoint, there is nothing that would stimulate it to decay before that.On the other hand, from the vantage point of the external observer, the proton...