Re: A maximum possible acceleration?

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

> Ludwik is not appeased with accelerations due to rotations, so I must
> consider linear acceleration, which I will suppose is always due to 
> a force of some kind.
>  It is easy to discount the kinds of electric field which motivate
> mechanical force, because at some point a macroscopic object will be
> squashed if the acceleration is too great; the force needing to spread 
> over a wider area of application until a rather thin layer, perhaps 
> a monatomic layer is the limit.

> And so I am finally left with the force of gravity, which it appears may be
> multiplied without limit and which would provide an arbitrarily large
> acceleration to a particle approaching a hole of sufficient mass.
>
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
> Altus OK

Actually, gravity can cause a vacuum breakdown too, analogous to the 
Klein paradox. This is one way of thinking about Hawking radiation. 
Make the gravitational field large enough and you start to create 
particle/antiparticle pairs.

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