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PeterDonis replied to the thread Graduate Quantum interpretations and indistinguishable elementary particles.No, they don't. If anyone in this thread is missing the point, IMO it's you. Nowhere, because the quantum system in this case only... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Ah, I see. So this is not the "orthogonal foliation" notion of distance, or the "odometer" notion of distance. It's the other one from... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Any curve whatsoever that is orthogonal to an Eulerian worldline must have a zero ##t## component in the standard warp coordinates... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Hawking radiation may smooth black hole singularities.No, because there's no white hole horizon, any more than there's a black hole horizon. It's just outgoing radiation. The portion of the... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Yes, you're right, I was too pessimistic there. However, any such geodesic orthogonal to an Eulerian worldline would have to lie within... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Any curve in a surface of constant time in the warp coordinates, and only such curves, are orthogonal to all Eulerian worldlines. That... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Hawking radiation may smooth black hole singularities.If you mean in the supposed "vacuum" region, that's kinda sorta true--the "hole" becomes effectively de Sitter only at very small ##r##... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread High School Seemingly odd quantum tunneling.The thread topic has been sufficiently discussed. Thread closed. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread High School Seemingly odd quantum tunneling.No, it can't. That was already pointed out in post #2 of the thread. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread High School Seemingly odd quantum tunneling.Moderator's note: I have moved all of the posts from the second thread @DanteKennedy started on tunneling, into this one. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Hawking radiation may smooth black hole singularities.In a Bardeen black hole solution, there is no information paradox because there is no true event horizon anywhere. The causal structure... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Yes. And in the back wall, Eulerian observers asymptotically get "peeled off" of the wall and released into the region behind the bubble. -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Yes, agreed; in the scenario in Figure 3 of the paper, where the bubble stops once it gets to Alpha Centauri, it can be escaped then... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.And in that previous post I basically rediscovered what's presented in section 5.5 of the paper that talks about the event horizon. What... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.I think I might be getting at something similar here to what the paper discusses in section 5.5 about an event horizon. That section...