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Can squeezed vacuum reduce the mass of a black hole?
Could the negative energy density parts of squeezed light really reduce the mass of a black hole, as stated here (“A pulse of negative energy injected into a charged black hole might momentarily ...
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Can we regard metric as the Higgs field of gravity?
The longer version of the question is: should we regard special relativity just as a spontaneous symmetry breaking phase of general relativity, driven by the non-zero vacuum expectation value (VEV) of ...
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Does strongly gravitating object travel along geodesic of a background field？ [closed]
That test particles travel along the geodesic is assumed in the context of GR. But does it apply to strongly gravitating object, such as black hole in an expanding universe, binary neutron star, etc.? ...
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Energy spectrum in Klein-Gordon equation in general relativity
I know that the Klein-Gordon equation in general relativity takes the form (a massless field)
$\nabla_\mu \nabla^\mu \phi=\sum_{a,b} \frac{1}{\sqrt{-g}}\partial_a(\sqrt{-g}g^{ab}\partial_b\phi) =0$
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How can a grain of sand be "spaghettified" when nearing a black hole?
I have a hard time wrapping my head around this "spaghettification" process that apparently takes places when getting close to a black hole.
Gravity is proportional to the distance of the ...
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Equivalent theories of general relativity and graviton spin
Are there equivalent theories of general relativity that assume a graviton has a spin-1?
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How do I self-study physics at the undergrad level? [closed]
I'm a new physics undergrad worried that I won't be able to learn everything I want at the university I'm going to.
Basically the Institute I'm going to is applied sciences focused, and all electives ...
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Does photon energy affect deflection of a beam of light in a gravitational field? [duplicate]
Does photon energy affect deflection of a beam of light in a gravitational field?
According to general theory of relativity angular deflection of a beam of light in a gravitational field is
$$φ = \...
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Black $p$-brane solution
Im trying to confirm that the metric (11) in the paper below is a solution to Einstein's equations (6). I tried to use the metric and extract $\lambda=(1-(r_+/r)^{D-3})^{1/2-\gamma/2(D-3)}$ and $R=r(1-...
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Is there an upper boundary to magnetism?
This is gonna take some explaining, and full disclosure: I'm still undergrad, so please, forgive my ignorance here. Though please also hear me out: magnetism, like gravity, falls off with distance, ...
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Evolving energy density of a particle species in cosmology
Suppose you have a momentum distribution of some decoupled $X$ particles in the early universe $f(\mathbf{p})$ that is injected in (well above the electroweak scale so that degrees of freedom for all ...
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Will the ever accelerating space expansion (like at the level of inflation) eventually break causality?
I have read this question:
requires that "for an action at one point to have an influence at another point, something in the space between the points, such as a field, must mediate the action&...
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Do objects with different sizes or masses experience time differently when they are moving in a constant velocity in their own reference frame? [duplicate]
My question is actually not about curve spacetime. Just curious if different mass affects how the object experiences time. Hope that someone can give a detailed explanation on this. Thank you!
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Does the mass of a moving object in empty space with a constant velocity change within its own frame of reference from its rest mass?
I believe that a constant velocity moving object in empty space within it own frame of reference retains its rest mass as long as it is moving at constant velocity and an effective mass increase ...
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Is $\frac{dE}{dt}=0$ in an accelerating particle’s instantaneous rest frame?
My special relativity book uses an argument that involves $\frac{dE}{dt}=0$ in an accelerating particles rest frame (to show a force parallel to a particles velocity is parallel in all frames).
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Does an observer moving in a circle with constant angular velocity in space experience GR gravitational time dilation?
Assuming that there are no other planets or other gravitational sources around the observer in empty space, would the observer's very fast circular motion create GR gravitational or else called ...
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Why did Dirac say that atomic time is different from relativistic time, and that gravity is becoming weaker? What is the relation between the two?
In this gem of an interview in 1982 with Friedrich Hund, Dirac says at 09:17 that there is some theoretical basis and observational evidence that atomic time and distances are different from ...
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What happens when a galactic body gets bigger?
In my simple non-quantum non-nuclear but enthusiasm-filled mind, I fascinate that as a galactic body become much more massive, it can reduce matter first down to its building blocks, then eventually ...
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Why is the entry barrier in Physics Research Topics so high? [closed]
Why is the entry barrier in physics research so high?? When I try to read a research paper to see the latest developments in a particular topics I am always held back by my mathematical abilities. And ...
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Why can’t gravitons distinguish gravity and inertial acceleration?
If gravitons mediate the gravitational force, couldn’t the detection of gravitons by an observer be used to distinguish whether they are experiencing gravitational acceleration vs. inertial ...
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Moving particle with GR not taken into account vs GR taken into account
If we imagine a lightwave moving through space without considering how the space is deformed due to the energy and momentum of the light, we would find it redshifted once we take GR into account ...
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Lagrangian of free particle relativistic case
Why must the covariant Lagrangian of a free particle be a first-order differential?
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The Explosive Force of the Braking Alcubierre Drive - What would this look like? [closed]
The Alcubierre Drive and faster than light travel more generally may be locked away in the realm of fiction forever. That might be depressing to some people but I think their impossibility is really ...
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Question about relative velocity and black hole formation in a fixed target experiment
In a given frame S, consider an inelastic collision between a particle A and a fixed target B. In frame S, the relative velocity of A (and thus the kinetic energy) to an observer in frame S is not ...
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Is there a way to detect gravitational waves in subatomic particles?
Consider the hypothetical situation of two electrons orbiting each other with a certain radius between them, going at extremely high speeds.
Would this create gravitational waves strong enough to be ...
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Do particles produce gravitational waves?
We have obviously detected gravitational waves at very large scales, but what about small scales? I accept the answer that they would be indetectable, however I would think it would, considering the ...
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Spin particles in curved spacetime
On the Lorentz space, particles are axiomatized as unitary projective representations of the Poincaré group (according to Wigner if I recall correctly). It is then possible to specify a (non-charged) ...
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What is the result that that differs by many orders of magnitude between QM and GR? [duplicate]
It is well known that QM and GR are deemed incompatible due to a discrepancy in some calculations which I have read can differ by large magnitudes. What are these calculations to which people are ...
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What does the photon feel when it hits an asteroid on its path to earth [duplicate]
If a photon was approaching earth, after 1 minute(from earths reference frame) an asteroid comes on the photons path. And it hits the asteroid, but from the photons reference frame time doesn't pass ...
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Elementary particle (electron) and non-elementary (proton) spagettification
I understand that spagettification means the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes in a non-homogenous gravitational field, it is caused by tidal forces.
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