Comments on: The black hole firewall paradox

By: Prof. Dr. F. Winterberg

Prof. Dr. F. Winterberg — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:30:58 +0000

The article by Jennifer Ouellette is the best I have seen. Of the three “cherished notions in theoretical physics” 1. the equivalence principle, 2. the unitarity postulate, and 3. the normalcy expectation of physics far away from a black hole, the 3rd one is only approximately true. The reason is that the zero point vacuum energy obeying a w^3 frequency spectrum would be Lorentz invariant for all energies if it would not be cut off at the Planck energy. The cut-off leads to a prefeered absolute reference system in which this energy is at rest. Because the Planck energy is so high, special and general relativity remain extremely good approximations, but it is not possible simply to transform away an event horizon where the absolute velocity of an infalling elementary particle against this reference system reaches the velocity of light and the Planck energy. In the transition from absolute subluminal to superluminal velocities the differential equation describing the 4-potential (if formulated in the pre-Einstein absolute ether theory of relativity by Lorentz and Poincare) goes over from an elliptic differential equation into a hyperbolic differential equation with no static equilibrium solutions for matter held together by electromagnetic forces. This is what happens at the event horizon where the absolute velocity of an infalling elementary particle reaches the Planck energy , and where it decays into electromagnetic radiation for the above given reason. The same would happen if an elementary particle is accelerated by any means to absolute velocities where it reaches the Planck energy. With the event horizon in a collapsing body appearing first as a point in its center, the body will in a short time decay into a burst of gamma rays. This preserves unitarity and explains the gamma ray bursters where in one observed case 50 solar masses were in a short time completely converted into radiation. This is the firewall which has nothing to do with Hawking radiation. But the mass of very large black holes can be also slowly converted into radiation which may explain the stream of hydrogen flowing out of the galactic center, where Eddington had speculated that it may come from a higher dimension, rather than pushed out by radiation pressure from the gamma rays released at the event horizon of a large black hole. F. Winterberg, Professor of Physics University of Nevada.

By: Prof. Dr. F. Winterberg

Prof. Dr. F. Winterberg — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:12:40 +0000

Polchinski is right. In a paper I had published in 2001 in Z. Naturforschung, entitled “Gamma Ray Bursters and Lorentzian Relativity” I had predicted the existence of such firewalls. Please read my paper. F. Winterberg

By: quantummoxie

quantummoxie — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:14:09 +0000

Actually, this is not even my idea. There are a number of papers out there that consider this from a slightly different POV, but with the basic notion that the inside and outside of a BH event horizon constitute different superselection sectors. In fact I think Polchinski’s paper that started this whole thing mentions it, though I’d have to double-check.

By: Arnab Roy

Arnab Roy — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:22:58 +0000

Hello Sir,

From this entire article the one stuff that is not clear to me that for what reason exactly you inferred the Event Horizon of a Black hole to be a sort of a SUPERSELECTION boundary..

Is it because..it is differentiating the respective Quantum states of the Normal Matter Particle and it’s anti Counterpart and subsequently preventing them from annihilating each other ??

But then again, if that is to be believed, if Alice is crossing the event horizon in our usual thought experiment, then wouldn’t there be an Anti-Alice appearing in our Universe who will be having some real Power destructing his friend Bob with a touch..he he..a bit of humor at last !!!

By: Yeah

Yeah — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:36:48 +0000

Jack Sarfatti…