Re: cosmology and quantum gravity

[Zach Wolff <zachary_wolff@YAHOO.COM>]

I may be completely missing the point here, but I feel
like this answer has strayed from the original
question.  The answer here talks about a static
gravitational field as a curvature of space.  In my
limited understanding this is a relativistic
description of the force, as opposed to a quantum
description in which forces are mediated by particles.
 If this is not true, what am I missing?  If this is
true, is there any way a force mediated by a particle
(or particles) could be created by an interaction
between something inside the event horizon and
something outside the event horizon?

Zach

--- Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV> wrote in part:
>         What's going on is that you have to look at
> the entire universe,
> not just the black hole (something like donuts).
> The Schwarzchild
> geometry is the geometry of a universe with a large
> mass at the center.
> The static gravitational effects that we can observe
> are embedded in the
> metric (more strictly, the curvature) outside of the
> horizon.  In the
> usual metric, the gravitational effects get larger
> and larger as we
> approach the black hole until they blow up at the
> horizon, where there is
> a coordinate singularity.  So the answer is that the
> mass at the center
> of the black hole has distorted all of space; part
> of that distortion is
> the event horizon that bounds the black hole.
>                                         Regards,
>                                                 Jack
> > >

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