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Black Hole Construction from the Minkowski Manifold

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How to cite: Laforet, C. Black Hole Construction from the Minkowski Manifold. Preprints 2023, 2023030512. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0512.v7 Laforet, C. Black Hole Construction from the Minkowski Manifold. Preprints 2023, 2023030512. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0512.v7

Abstract

The Schwarzschild manifold is constructed by taking a point on the Minkowski manifold and stretching it into a 4-sphere. This stretch causes gradients in the temporal and spatial coordinate densities around the sphere, leaving a hole of null space-time in the manifold centered at the spatial location of the original point. It is shown that this accurately models the Schwarzschild metric and is used to prove that radial infalling geodesics become null at the horizon and come to rest there. The light-like nature of the worldline is confirmed by analyzing it in Kruskal-Szekeres (KS) coordinates. It is shown that the worldline in KS coordinates has an undefined derivative at the horizon at any point other than the origin of the KS coordinates. It is then demonstrated that the origin of the KS coordinate system can be reached in the falling frame by exploiting the time symmetry of the manifold and that the falling worldline is indeed light-like there. The light-like nature of the worldline means that the horizon is length contracted to a point in the falling frame, such that the event horizon is proven to be the source of the Schwarzschild metric and the end point of gravitational collapse.

Keywords

Black holes; General Relativity; Schwarzschild metric

Subject

Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics

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Comment 1
Received: 9 November 2023
Commenter: Christopher Laforet
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: - Updated title and abstract
- Added a section on constructing black holes by stretching a point in Minkowski spacetime into a 4-sphere
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