Do black holes have hair after all?
The idea of the vacuum having virtual micro-black holes has been constantly rumbling around in my head. Recently, I came across an experiment proposed by Jacob Bekenstein that would test the graininess of space through a single photon passing through a clear pixel and supposing that it interacted with virtual micro-black hole as a form of resistance which might be observed.
Based on Stephen Hawking’s theory of Hawking radiation, if a black hole event horizon can rip space into positive and negative energy pairs, where one falls into the black hole and the other can escape as Hawking radiation, then why it's more often than not assumed that negative energy always falls into the black hole to cause it to lose mass while the positive energy virtual particle escapes to become real escaping mass?
Shouldn't the opposite be true? When negative energy virtual particles escape and positive energy virtual particles fall into the black hole, doesn't that mean you can take positive mass that starts outside the black hole and put it inside the black hole?
At any point there is an event horizon created it must produce some random mix of positive and negative energy particles leaving the event horizon that would seem to cancel until something falls into the black hole. Depending on how big the horizon is, there would be more or less of this and it depending on how massive the in-falling object was, this would seem to interact as a black hole fed. This means that either the black hole event horizon can filter the whole mass of in-falling positive energy, or it burns it to one degree or another where some of the mass gets filtered through negative Hawking radiation and some of it simple makes it through untouched.
Also, if you take the view that every virtual particle pair is really a virtual micro-black hole and it's corresponding Hawking radiation which somehow reforms into new virtual micro-black hole, the event horizon around non-virtual black hole would seem to be a special space with special dynamics for such virtual micro-black hole in the same way that we think of virtual particle positive and negative energy pairs being prevented from colliding.
This would seem to mean that as in-falling matter contacts byproducts from the event horizon curvature, it might experience interaction with either positive or negative energy virtual-micro black hole and virtual Hawking radiation. But since virtual-micro black hole are unstable, there would only be either positive or negative energy Hawking radiation that escapes in some fashion so as to not reform virtual-micro black hole to maintain the conservation of energy.
However, I suspect that this is an incorrect way to look at this due to special relativity. The clocks of in-falling positive mass-energy would be relatively faster than that of a co-moving virtual-micro black hole that escape the horizon. Therefore, would the escaping virtual micro-black hole have time to fully evaporate before it encounters in-falling positive rest-mass energy?
This might mean that there is some distance from the event horizon that in-falling mass, depending on it's own relative velocity to the horizon, and depending on the size of the horizon itself with more or less facing horizon curvature, might begin to encounter some unique gradient of more or less virtual micro-black holes and not it's Hawking radiation byproduct.
