Re: "Observation of thermal Hawking radiation and its temperature in an analogue black hole"

This is a Matters Arising (a comment) on “Observation of thermal Hawking radiation and its temperature in an analogue black hole” by Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Katrine Golubkov, Victor I. Kolobov & Jeff Steinhauer: Nature 569, 688–691 (2019). Nature journal emailed me this advice - "Because the handling of Matters Arising can require significant time while we seek further advice, we would encourage you to post your submission now to an appropriate preprint archive. In doing so, the community would be made aware of the potential issue in a timely fashion."

The Letter “Observation of thermal Hawking radiation and its temperature in an analogue black hole” does far more than support Hawking radiation. In a performance worthy of Einstein and Newton, it and related topics also contribute to our understanding of geometry, matter’s formation, the Higgs boson, the speed of light, the particles of the two nuclear forces, planet formation, the origin of water, quantum superposition, macro-entanglement, and black holes. Unfortunately, this could lead to the Letter’s importance being downplayed. Although scientists are thrilled when a scientific paper unifies subjects, they also have a tendency to be deeply suspicious when a paper attempts to explain so many things. It violates their conviction that science can only progress by taking “baby steps”. Though Newton and Einstein proceeded by leaps and bounds, many scientists seem to think history is finished and science can only crawl at a snail’s pace now.