A Little Quantum Help for Cosmic Censorship and a Step Beyond All That
Author
Source
Advances in High Energy Physics
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-4, 4 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
4
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The hypothesis of cosmic censorship (CCH) plays a crucial role in classical general relativity, namely, to ensure that naked singularities would never emerge, since it predicts that whenever a singularity is formed an event horizon would always develop around it as well, to prevent the former from interacting directly with the rest of the Universe.
Should this not be so, naked singularities could eventually form, in which case phenomena beyond our understanding and ability to predict could occur, since at the vicinity of the singularity both predictability and determinism break down even at the classical (e.g., nonquantum) level.
More than 40 years after it was proposed, the validity of the hypothesis remains an open question.
We reconsider CCH in both its weak and strong versions, concerning point-like singularities, with respect to the provisions of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
We argue that the shielding of the singularities from observers at infinity by an event horizon is also quantum mechanically favored, but ultimately it seems more appropriate to accept that singularities never actually form in the usual sense; thus no naked singularity danger exists in the first place.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Pappas, Nikolaos. 2013. A Little Quantum Help for Cosmic Censorship and a Step Beyond All That. Advances in High Energy Physics،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-456205
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Pappas, Nikolaos. A Little Quantum Help for Cosmic Censorship and a Step Beyond All That. Advances in High Energy Physics No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-456205
American Medical Association (AMA)
Pappas, Nikolaos. A Little Quantum Help for Cosmic Censorship and a Step Beyond All That. Advances in High Energy Physics. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-456205
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-456205