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Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1064–1066 (1995)

Are Physical Objects Necessarily Burnt Up by the Blue Sheet inside a Black Hole?

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Lior M. Burko and Amos Ori
Department of Physics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel

Received 2 August 1994; published in the issue dated 13 February 1995

The electromagnetic radiation that falls into a Reissner-Nordström black hole develops a "blue sheet" of infinite energy density at the Cauchy horizon. We consider classical electromagnetic fields (produced during the collapse and then backscattered into the black hole), and investigate the blue-sheet effects of these fields on infalling objects within a simplified model. These effects are found to be finite and even negligible for typical parameters.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1064
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1064
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.40.Nr