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 = /(8 GM)1.510^{-14}\, [ 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, =/ [ 11 ] . Setting equal to a demanding but realistic dilution-refrigerator base temperature of 10\, and solving for the required clearance gives r2.810^{-14}\, — 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 = /(8 GM)1.510^{-14}\, [ 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, =/ [ 11 ] . Setting equal to a demanding but realistic dilution-refrigerator base temperature of 10\, and solving for the required clearance gives r2.810^{-14}\, — 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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- [10] Particle Creation by Black Holes ↗
- [11] On the Weight of Heat and Thermal Equilibrium in General Relativity ↗
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