Equation 60 · Part 7 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

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

What this part means

The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.

Its job in the formula

The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.

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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 $a(r) = \frac{GM/r^2}{\sqrt{f(r)}}$ . As r $\to$ $r_s$ =2GM/ $c^2$ , f $\to$ 0 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

An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.

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