Infeasibility of Graviton Detection as Cosmic Censorship

Abstract

We construct an explicit model of inhomogeneous gravitational collapse leading to a naked singularity in which gravitational absorption is both efficient and observable. We propose that the infeasibility of graviton detection is simply a consequence of Nature's conspiracy to hide regions of strong curvature behind event horizons.

arXiv commentVersion accepted for publication in Foundations of Physics

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