https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11048-2
Regular Article
Spooky black holes: Gravitational self-energy and space curvature
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
* e-mail: christ@df.unipi.it
Received:
11
March
2011
Revised:
18
April
2011
Accepted:
19
April
2011
Published online:
13
May
2011
It is shown that space curvature can be disposed of by properly taking into account gravitational self-energies. This leads to a parameter-free modification of Newton’s law, violating Gauss theorem, which accounts for the crucial tests of gravitation in a flat space. Strong gravitational fields entail opposing big gravitational self-energies. The negative gravitational self-energy of a gravitational composite object, which results in a mass defect with respect to the sum of the constituents, thus cancels out the latter at the Schwarzschild radius. Hence a black hole, possible end result of the radiative shrinkage of a star, having zero total energy, cannot any longer interact with other objects. Baryon number non-conservation may result.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer, 2011
