Equation 90 · Part 2 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole
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It is not a loophole, for two reasons that both belong to this article’s ledger rather than to new physics. First, the energy extracted is drawn from a real, finite, globally tracked reservoir — the hole’s irreducible mass sets a hard ceiling on how much rotational energy any sequence of Penrose processes can ever remove, so “free” energy here means “energy billed to the hole’s own account,” not energy created from nothing. This is the same accounting that guarantees the hole’s horizon area cannot decrease in the process: every joule of rotational energy successfully extracted lowers the spin without lowering the irreducible mass below the value the area theorem permits, so the ledger…
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