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- From: dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE)
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- Subject: Re: Black hole insights
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:41:00 GMT
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- bbowen@megatest.com (Bruce Bowen) writes...
- > This same thing has occured to me. I haven't yet seen a satifactory
- >explanation. Also, locally, there's nothing really "stressful" about
- >spacetime at the horizon, so why would an infaller see anything there;
- >unless to him the evaporation radiation appeared to emminate from the
- >singularity.
-
- Well, he doesn't see the singularity of course. First of all, I think
- an infalling observer does not have enough time to measure the temperature.
- (Perhaps this should be an uncertainty principle?) Secondly, a horizon is a
- globally defined entity, so he should see radiation from his personal global
- horizon.
-
- I've always wondered what happens if you throw a cat in. As the cat
- gets to the horizon it seems to you to be in an infinite temperature heat
- bath. So it should be destroyed. But from the cat's point of view, she passes
- right through the horizon unharmed. This is not necessarily a contradiction
- since you can't communicate with the cat after it passes through. But it sure
- is spooky. I wish someone would tell me why this is wrong. :-)
-
- > Say, we have a black hole of mass M. We drop a small test mass into
- >it. We wait long enough for it to get within a small distance epsilon
- >of the horizon. We then radially symmetrically dump another amount of
- >mass M in on top of it. Very soon in observer/coordinate time the
- >event horizon has moved far above the position of our small test mass,
- >so it is well within the event horizon in a finite amount of
- >schwartzchild "t". What now is it's coordinate time to reach the
- >central singularity?
-
- There are two schwartzchild coordinate patches in this problem. It
- takes infinite internal coordinate time for the test mass to pass r=2M.
- The internal motion is independent of the mass shell. It is interesting
- that the spacetime point when the shell reaches 4M is at infinite external
- time, but finite internal time. Thus the test mass seems to slow down.
-
- >between the two coordinate systems. What does one get for "r" and "t"
- >when one maps back into schwartzchild coordinates after the particle
- >has passed the horizon, and does anyone give these values
- >significance?
-
- r=2M t=infinity at that moment. r<2M t finite later. r has significance.
- t not much.
-
- > What is the final value of "t" when an infalling
- >particle reaches the central singularity?
-
- Depends on the trajectory, but it's finite. MTW has some nice pictures of
- trajectories in both coordinate systems.
-
- Dave Ring
- dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu
-