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Δr≈2.8×10−14 m\Delta r\approx2.8\times10^{-14}\,\mathrm m

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​ [ 11 ] . Setting TlocT_{\rm loc} equal to a demanding but realistic dilution-refrigerator base temperature of 10\,mK\mathrm{mK} and solving for the required clearance gives Δ\Delta r≈\approx2.8×\times10^{-14}\,m\mathrm m — a few nuclear radii from the horizon. For a supermassive hole, in other words, the ambient Hawking bath stays colder than any laboratory cryostat until the processor is closer to the horizon than an atomic nucleus, twenty-odd orders of magnitude closer than the point at which the support-acceleration bill already becomes unpayable. Cooling is a genuine, non-negotiable line item — it is what ties this construction to horizon thermodynamics at all — but for this mass scale it is not…

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Δr≈2.8×10−14 m\Delta r\approx2.8\times10^{-14}\,\mathrm m

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​ [ 11 ] . Setting TlocT_{\rm loc} equal to a demanding but realistic dilution-refrigerator base temperature of 10\,mK\mathrm{mK} and solving for the required clearance gives Δ\Delta r≈\approx2.8×\times10^{-14}\,m\mathrm m — a few nuclear radii from the horizon. For a supermassive hole, in other words, the ambient Hawking bath stays colder than any laboratory cryostat until the processor is closer to the horizon than an atomic nucleus, twenty-odd orders of magnitude closer than the point at which the support-acceleration bill already becomes unpayable. Cooling is a genuine, non-negotiable line item — it is what ties this construction to horizon thermodynamics at all — but for this mass scale it is not…

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