Quantum foam blows away naked singularity

• Autores: Amarendra Swarup
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2537, 2006, pág. 17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Naked singularities and cosmic censorship may sound like lurid terms from the tabloids, but in fact these phrases lie at the heart of a troubling question for modern cosmology: what happens when the known laws of space and time break down, as happens in the final moments of a star collapsing to a point under its own gravity? The answer lies in theories of quantum gravity, which attempt to unify the otherwise incompatible theories of quantum mechanics with Einstein's general activity.