Published April 1, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Hyper-entropic gravitational fireballs (grireballs) with firewalls

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, 4-183 CCIS, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1 (Canada)

Description

Recently there has been much discussion as to whether old black holes have firewalls at their surfaces that would destroy infalling observers. Though I suspect that a proper handling of nonlocality in quantum gravity may show that firewalls do not exist, it is interesting to consider an extension of the firewall idea to what seems to be the logically possible concept of hyper-entropic gravitational hot objects (gravitational fireballs or grireballs for short) that have more entropy than ordinary black holes of the same mass. Here some properties of such grireballs are discussed under various assumptions, such as assuming that their radii and entropies both go as powers of their masses as the one independent parameter, or assuming that their radii depend on both their masses and their entropies as two independent parameters

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/037

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2013
Journal Issue
04
Journal Page Range
p. 037
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45104199
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY; ENTROPY; MASS; SURFACES
Descriptors DEC
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES