Acceleration of particles to high energy via gravitational repulsion in the Schwarzschild field

2016/10/22 by Charles H. McGruder, Charles H. McGruder III
Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Deriving the Schwarzschild solution #Einstein #Einstein field equations #Field (mathematics) #General relativity #Gravitation #Gravitational acceleration #Gravitational energy #Gravitational field #Gravitational redshift #Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity #Kerr metric #Numerical relativity #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum electrodynamics #Schwarzschild geodesics #Schwarzschild metric #Schwarzschild radius #Two-body problem in general relativity #astro-ph.HE #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.10.003

published as Astroparticle Physics, Volume 86, p. 18-20, 2017

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Abstract

Gravitational repulsion is an inherent aspect of the Schwarzschild solution of the Einstein-Hilbert field equations of general relativity. We show that this circumstance means that it is possible to gravitationally accelerate particles to the highest cosmic ray energies.

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