Holographic Space-time and Black Holes: Mirages As Alternate Reality

TL;DR

This paper revisits the holographic space-time framework to clarify black hole interiors, correcting previous descriptions and emphasizing the consistency of quantum mechanics along in-falling trajectories without encountering firewalls.

Contribution

It provides a revised, consistent description of black hole interiors within the Holographic Space-time formalism, resolving earlier misconceptions about firewalls and interior physics.

Findings

HST offers a complete quantum description along in-falling trajectories.

Corrects previous models of black hole interiors within HST.

Supports the absence of firewalls in old black holes.

Abstract

We revisit our investigation of the claim of [1] that old black holes contain a firewall, i.e. an in-falling observer encounters highly excited states at a time much shorter than the light crossing time of the Schwarzschild radius. We used the formalism of Holographic Space-time (HST) where there is no dramatic change in particle physics inside the horizon until a time of order the Schwarzschild radius. We correct our description of the interior of the black hole . HST provides a complete description of the quantum mechanics along any time-like trajectory, even those which fall through the black hole horizon. The latter are described as alternative factorizations of the description of an external observer, turning the mirage of the interior provided by that observer's membrane paradigm on the stretched horizon, into reality.