Equation 79 · Part 9 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole
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What this part means
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
Its job in the formula
A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.
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The passage around this formula
The bill here is tidal, not electromagnetic or mechanical, and it is the one place this construction is bounded directly by what has actually been observed rather than by an idealization. A rigid processor of size falling radially experiences a stretching tidal acceleration between its two ends of approximately . which at the horizon itself scales as /(4) — falling as the inverse square of the mass. For a processor of laboratory size =1\, at the horizon of a black hole with the mass measured for the progenitors of the first LIGO gravitational-wave detection, around 30\, , this tidal stress is already about…
Learn the underlying idea
An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [16] Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ↗
- [14] First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way ↗
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