On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 11:43:48 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

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> On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 5:34:17 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote:
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>> On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 4:48:51 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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>>> On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 5:01:41 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
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>>>> On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 7:50:07 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote:
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>>>>> On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 5:08:57 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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>>>>>> Gravitons do not escape from a BH, any more than can light. However, 
>>>>>> from the perspective of an outside observer all matter than went into a 
>>>>>> BH 
>>>>>> is on the surface above the event horizon, called the stretched horizon. 
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>>>>>> LC
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>>>>> Gravitons might not exist (and hence quantum gravity can't exist)  But 
>>>>> whatever the case, how can BH's interact gravitationally with objects 
>>>>> beyond its event horizon? You say this doesn't happen. I don't understand 
>>>>> your argument. AG 
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>>> That you are saying this illustrates you do not understand general 
>>> relativity.
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>>>> I may have identified the thousand pound gorilla in the room; the 
>>>> hypothetical force carrying particle of the quantum gravitating field, the 
>>>> graviton, which for BH's doesn't exert any force! AG 
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>>> I have no idea why you are saying this. Gravitation is not a force in 
>>> the usual sense and so the graviton does not produce a force in the 
>>> standard meaning. For the weak field limit the nonlinear terms are 
>>> negligable and a gravitational wave is linear. This is easily quantized. In 
>>> fact it is similar to the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss theory of the diphoton. 
>>> It is when the field becomes strong that general relativity becomes 
>>> nonlinear and runs into trouble with quantum mechanics.
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>>> LC
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>> I assumed a quantum field theory of gravity must have a particle 
>> associated with it, and that this particle is called the graviton. Gravity 
>> is a fictitious force. So what would the role of the graviton be, if not to 
>> produce some force? If you detect gravitational waves, don't they consist 
>> of gravitons if a quantum theory of gravity exists, analogous to photons in 
>> EM waves? AG
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> Before you can present yourself as deeply knowledgeable of GR, you should 
> be able to give a coherent account how presumably *isolated* bodies such 
> as BH's, can gravitationally interact with what's exterior to them. If 
> gravitons can't do that in the context of a quantum theory of gravity, what 
> can?  AG
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It is the delay or tortoise coordinate basis for an external observer.

LC 

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