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Equation 72 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

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Staying cold is the second cost, and here the numbers run the other way. The Hawking temperature of Sagittarius A* at infinity is THT_H=ℏ\hbar c3c^3/(8π\pi GMkBk_B)≈\approx1.5×\times10^{-14}\,K\mathrm K [ 10 ] . A static observer at radius r sees this blueshifted by the same Tolman factor that governs any locally measured temperature in a static spacetime, Tloc(r)T_{\rm loc}(r)=THT_H/f(r)\sqrt{f(r)} [ 11 ] . Setting TlocT_{\rm loc} equal to a demanding but realistic dilution-refrigerator base temperature of 10\,mK\mathrm{mK} and solving for the required clearance gives Δ\Delta r≈\approx2.8×\times10^{-14}\,m\mathrm m — a few nuclear radii from the horizon. For a supermassive hole, in other words, the ambient Hawking bath…
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Staying cold is the second cost, and here the numbers run the other way. The Hawking temperature of Sagittarius A* at infinity is THT_H=ℏ\hbar c3c^3/(8π\pi GMkBk_B)≈\approx1.5×\times10^{-14}\,K\mathrm K [ 10 ] . A static observer at radius r sees this blueshifted by the same Tolman factor that governs any locally measured temperature in a static spacetime, Tloc(r)T_{\rm loc}(r)=THT_H/f(r)\sqrt{f(r)} [ 11 ] . Setting TlocT_{\rm loc} equal to a demanding but realistic dilution-refrigerator base temperature of 10\,mK\mathrm{mK} and solving for the required clearance gives Δ\Delta r≈\approx2.8×\times10^{-14}\,m\mathrm m — a few nuclear radii from the horizon. For a supermassive hole, in other words, the ambient Hawking bath stays colder than any laboratory cryostat until the processor is closer to the horizon than an atomic nucleus, twenty-odd orders of magnitude closer than the point at which the support-acceleration bill already becomes unpayable. Cooling is a genuine, non-negotiable line item — it is what ties this construction to horizon thermodynamics at all — but for this mass scale it is not the item that kills the claim; the strut rig fails first, by an enormous margin.

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