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Quantum Black Holes as the Link Between Microphysics and Macrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-03-28 v1

Abstract

There appears to be a duality between elementary particles, which span the mass range below the Planck scale, and black holes, which span the mass range range above it. In particular, the Black Hole Uncertainty Principle Correspondence posits a smooth transition between the Compton and Schwarzschild scales as a function of mass. This suggests that all black holes are in some sense quantum, that elementary particles can be interpreted as sub-Planckian black holes, and that there is a subtle connection between quantum and classical physics.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08655,
  title  = {Quantum Black Holes as the Link Between Microphysics and Macrophysics},
  author = {B. J. Carr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08655},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures, 2015 Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, eds. P. Nicolini, J. Mureika, M. Kaminski and M. Bleicher