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Stochastic Quantum Gravity, Gravitational Collapse and Grey Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-02-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Quantum gravity is treated as a stochastic quantization of the spacetime metric of general relativity. It is found that owing to the stochastic fluctuating behavior of the geometry, the singularity in gravitational collapse of a star has a zero probability density of occurring. Moreover, as a star collapses the probability density of a distant observer seeing an infinite red shift at the Schwarzschild radius of the star is zero. Therefore, there is a vanishing probability density of a black hole event horizon forming during gravitational collapse. A grey apparent event horizon forms during the collapse that allows information to escape.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0906,
  title  = {Stochastic Quantum Gravity, Gravitational Collapse and Grey Holes},
  author = {J. W. Moffat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0906},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/9610067

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