PeterDonis
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More precisely, whether they apply under conditions of extreme gravitational collapse. As I think I mentioned, certain quantum field states can violate the energy conditions; the question is whether the conditions encountered in extreme gravitational collapse would induce a kind of phase change that would produce such states. That's likely to remain an open question for a long time since that regime is nowhere near being accessible to our experiments any time soon.timmdeeg said:the open question is whether or not the energy conditions apply