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Contrasting the fuzzball and wormhole paradigms for black holes
Bin Guo, Marcel R. R. Hughes, Samir D. Mathur +1
We examine an interesting set of recent proposals describing a `wormhole paradigm' for black holes. These proposals require that in some effective variables, semiclassical low-ener…
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The elastic vacuum
Samir D. Mathur
The quantum gravity vacuum must contain virtual fluctuations of black hole microstates. These extended-size fluctuations get `crushed' when a closed trapped surface forms, and turn…