mburns's Journal: Hamilton's Event Horizon

He writes in the June 2011 Discover magazine about an inflationary catastrophe when an in falling observer meets an event horizon. The graphics presented are spectacular.

But I can not confirm his results. It seems that a coordinate distortion is responsible for the disagreement. Consider that there is an insufficient number of photons leaving the event horizon to provide a truly hot environment near the horizon, even though they are more energetic there. Consider again the strong equivalence principle. A close by observer would see a brighter event horizon, which must therefore seem smaller according to the Hawking formula.

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Michael J. Burns