thunderbolt (was Re: Doomsday vs Diaspora)

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 23:00:01 MDT

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    At 07:33 PM 4/25/03 -0400, Eliezer wrote:

    >>thunderbolt singularity?

    >It's a consistent GR solution for an evaporating black hole which exposes
    >the naked singularity

    Erm...

    < We interpret the prediction of thunderbolts as indicating that the semi
    classical approximation breaks down at the end point of black hole
    evaporation, and we would expect that a full quantum treatment would
    replace the thunderbolt with a burst of high energy particles. The energy
    in such a burst would be too small to account for the observed gamma ray
    bursts. >

    Damien Broderick

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