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- From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
- Subject: Re: gravitons
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.225446.17541@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
- References: <C1550w.GG9@utdallas.edu> <mcirvin.727556509@husc.harvard.edu> <mcirvin.727660223@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:54:46 GMT
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- In article <mcirvin.727660223@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
- >mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
- >
- >>nariani@utdallas.edu (Sushil Nariani) writes:
- >
- >>>If light cannot escape a blackhole, how can gravitons escape to pass on
- >>>the message of blackhole gravity to the rest of the universe?
- >
- >>One answer is that the "virtual particles" that mediate forces
- >>according to quantum field theory aren't bound by ordinary laws of
- >>motion. They can therefore get out of black holes with no trouble
- >>at all. How they do this without conveying information out of a
- >>black hole is a complicated story.
- >
- >Contemplating this further, I think that this statement is a little
- >misleading. I don't know what the graviton propagator really looks
- >like (I haven't seen the expression recently), but if you work in
- >Feynman gauge and examine the propagator of a *massless* spin-1
- >boson like a photon, I think that in spacetime (rather than in
- >momentum-energy space) it is confined to the light cone. If gravitons
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- You're wrong here : propagator is not zero outside light-cone.
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- >behave the same way, then the explanation for how they get out of the
- >hole is the same as the classical explanation for how the field can
- >persist: they're relics from the time before the hole formed. It's
- >only *massive* particles that have tails to their propagators that
- >lie outside the light cone-- for them the situation is as nontrivial
- >as I suggested above.
- >--
- >Matt McIrvin
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