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View SchemaSuperluminality and Pair-Production
| Authors | Eric Baird |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/9807016 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9807016 |
Abstract
When an information-carrying lightbeam is (legally) swept across a surface at more than c, simple signal-propagation arguments allow the observed behavior of the moving image (or "sprite") to include time-reversal and pair-production effects. A pair-production description also arises if we try to impose some common assumptions of general relativity onto the physics of an indirectly-radiating Eighteenth-Century "dark star". This result seems suspiciously similar to the modern concept of "Hawking radiation".
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