In this case the horizon is basically just the edge of a light cone, and a continuously-accelerating observer can indefinitely avoid crossing into this light cone (see the top diagram at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rindler_coordinates -- x=0 is the edge of the light cone, while the curve labeled x=0.2 would be the worldline of such an accelerating observer, similarly with x=0.4, x=0.6 etc.) Naturally any light cone behaves like an event horizon in the sense that once you cross into it, there's no way to ever get out of it without moving faster than light. But such a "Rindler horizon" is not considered a true event horizon, if I remember the terminology correctly--an event horizon is specifically defined as a boundary between points where all worldlines crossing through those points are guaranteed to hit a singularity, and points where some worldlines can avoid doing so forever.
Jesse On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:56 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > The event horizon due to acceleration is just relative to the one > accelerated. I doesn't warp space, so there's no reason it should interact > with anything. > > Brent > > On 2/13/2014 12:41 PM, LizR wrote: > >> Acceleration does cause the formation of an event horizon, I believe, >> which might be considered to couple it with gravity (in an unexpected way). >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
