The firewall transformation for black holes and some of its implications

DOI10.1007/S10701-017-0122-3zbMATH Open1384.83030arXiv1612.08640OpenAlexW2963094398WikidataQ59481383 ScholiaQ59481383MaRDI QIDQ1699588FDOQ1699588

Authors: Gerard 't Hooft 

Publication date: 23 February 2018

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A promising strategy for better understanding space and time at the Planck scale, is outlined and further pursued. It is explained in detail, how black hole unitarity demands the existence of transformations that can remove firewalls. This must then be combined with a continuity condition on the horizon, with antipodal identification as an inevitable consequence. The antipodal identification comes with a CPT inversion. We claim to have arrived at 'new physics', but rather than string theory, our 'new physics' concerns new constraints on the topology and the boundary conditions of general coordinate transformations. The resulting theory is conceptually quite non trivial, and more analysis is needed. A strong entanglement between Hawking particles at opposite sides of the black hole is suspected, but questions remain. A few misconceptions concerning black holes, originating from older investigations, are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08640

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zbMATH Keywords

black hole informationblack hole interiorblack hole microstatesantipodal identificationfirewall transformationtime-like Möbius strip

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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