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Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten (quantamagazine.org)
11 points by privong on June 23, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



TL;DR Penrose's "no naked singularity" (General Relativity only predicts infinities shrouded behind the cloak of an Event Horizon, ensuring they don't interact with the universe) is found to be closely related to the conjecture that in any plausible universe gravity must be the weakest force. Indeed in simulations if electromagnetism (or other forces) are weaker than gravity Event Horizons can disappear and leave a naked singularity.

(It's a repost from a couple of days ago.)




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