Maximum force and cosmic censorship

TL;DR

This paper investigates the concept of a maximum force in the context of black holes, finding that while it can be defined, it remains largely tautological and offers limited new insights.

Contribution

It explores the applicability of the maximum force idea specifically to black holes, clarifying its limitations and conceptual nature.

Findings

Maximum force can be defined for black holes but is tautological

The concept is limited to specific black hole scenarios

Maximum force does not provide new physical constraints

Abstract

Although the idea that there is a maximum force in nature seems untenable, we explore whether this concept can make sense in the restricted context of black holes. We discuss uniformly accelerated and cosmological black holes and we find that, although a maximum force acting on these black holes can in principle be introduced, this concept is rather tautological.