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Title: QED blue-sheet effects inside black holes

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D
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  1. Department of Physics, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa (Israel)

The interaction of the unboundedly blueshifted photons of the cosmic microwave background radiation with a physical object falling towards the inner horizon of a Reissner-Nordstr{umlt o}m black hole is analyzed. To evaluate this interaction we consider the QED effects up to the second order in the perturbation expansion. We then extrapolate the QED effects up to a cutoff, which we introduce at the Planckian level. (Our results are not sensitive to the cutoff energy.) We find that the energy absorbed by an infalling observer is finite, and for typical parameters would not lead to a catastrophic heating. However, this interaction would almost certainly be fatal for a human being, or other living organisms of similar size. On the other hand, we find that smaller objects may survive the interaction. Our results do not provide support for the idea that the Cauchy horizon is to be regarded as the boundary of spacetime. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

OSTI ID:
467476
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D, Vol. 55, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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