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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Cosmic censorship (unsolved question)
- Message-ID: <Sep.14.14.20.24.1992.27166@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:20:25 GMT
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- This might actually be interesting, so I retitled it.
- John Baez writes:
- >The genericity conditions are important because otherwise there are
- >already counterexamples. He notes, for example, that Yodzis, Seifert
- >and Mueller zum Hagen have shown that "naked singularities" can occur
- >during the collapse of a spherically symmetric dust cloud or for
- >spherically symmetric perfect fluids. ... He says that these are "shell
- >crossing singularities," which arise from the crossing of shells of
- >matter. Their occurence is stable under spherically symmetric
- >perturbations. I guess the hope is that small NON-spherically-
- >symmetric perturbations would get rid of the singularities.
- >
- >Does anyone here know what these naked singularities are like? That
- >is, what weird physical consequences would they have?
-
- I didn't know that Y S & MzH had got a naked singularity for the dust
- case. That seems odd. Wald's GR book says that the naked singularity
- in the perfect fluid case is not worrisome, because it's essentially
- like a shell-crossing shock wave, and the assumptions of a perfect
- fluid _should_ break down at that point. That is, reasonable
- macroscopic assumptions are no longer valid (even in plain vanilla
- fluid mechanics) so the perfect fluid is unphysical. Non-sphericity
- isn't needed to save cosmic censorship. I don't know how one
- wiggles out of the dust case. I'm way out of my depth here, someone
- knowledgeable please respond.
-
- In related news, does anyone know what became of Shapiro and
- Teukolsky's "black line"?
-