Comment on "Acceleration of particles to high energy via gravitational repulsion in the Schwarzschild field" by C. H. McGruder III
arXiv:1812.06832 · doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.12.001
Abstract
By direct computations, we show that "repulsion" in the Schwarzschild field can not accelerate an outgoing particle, and thus represents pure coordinate effect. In other words, the repulsion can not be detected neither by local nor by distant observer.
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