Published March 1989
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Journal article
Is is necessary to abandon the ψ function in quantum gravitation?
Description
Hawking's conclusion that a pure state of an elementary particle converts into a mixed state as a result of a coupling with real and virtual black holes and that it is necessary to abandon the description of elementary particles by means of a ψ function in quantum gravitation is subjected to a critical analysis. An examination of a specific example - the motion of particles of nonzero mass and of photons in the field of a charged black hole - does not support Hawking's conclusion. Ellis's estimates of a lower (energy) limit on the applicability of quantum mechanics has been improved by 40 orders of magnitude
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Soviet Physics Journal (English Translation)
- Journal Volume
- 31
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Series
- Sov. Phys. J. (Engl. Transl.).
- Journal Page Range
- 703-707
- ISSN
- 0038-5697
- CODEN
- SOPJA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21020898
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Translation
- Descriptors DEI
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSFER; BLACK HOLES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COSMIC PHOTONS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COULOMB FIELD; COUPLING; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY DEPOSITION; ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERFERENCE; MOTION; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REMOTE SENSING; S MATRIX; SCATTERING; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRICES; MECHANICS; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- Transl.: Cover-to-cover translation of Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenij, Fizika (USSR).