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Equation 60 · Part 11 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

Numerator: GM/r^2

a(r)=GM/r2f(r).a(r) = \frac{GM/r^2}{\sqrt{f(r)}}.
GM/r2GM/r^2

What this part means

The complete quantity above the fraction bar.

Its job in the formula

GM/r2r^2 occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

Staying in place first. A static observer at radius r in Schwarzschild spacetime is not in free fall and must be continuously supported against the horizon’s pull, at proper acceleration a(r)=GM/r2f(r)a(r) = \frac{GM/r^2}{\sqrt{f(r)}}. As r→\to rsr_s=2GM/c2c^2 , f→\to0 and a(r)→\to∞\infty : holding station arbitrarily close to a horizon costs arbitrarily large continuous thrust, sourced from arbitrarily large continuous energy expenditure, which is exactly the situation Unruh’s original analysis and the long literature it produced treat as the flip side of a diverging local temperature for an accelerated or static near-horizon observer [ 9 , 12 ] .

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Learn the underlying idea

A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.

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