Can quantum mechanics fool the cosmic censor?

We revisit the mechanism for violating the weak cosmic-censorship conjecture (WCCC) by overspinning a nearly-extreme charged black hole. The mechanism consists of an incoming massless neutral scalar particle, with low energy and large angular momentum, tunneling into the hole. We investigate the effect of the large angular momentum of the incoming particle on the background geometry and address recent claims that such a backreaction would invalidate the mechanism. We show that the large angular momentum of the incident particle does not constitute an obvious impediment to the success of the overspinning quantum mechanism, although the induced backreaction turns out to be essential to restoring the validity of the WCCC in the classical regime. These results seem to endorse the view that the ""cosmic censor"" may be oblivious to processes involving quantum effects.

Unusual censor readings: G.D.R. science fiction and the Ministry of Culture

Covers the censorship by the Hauptverwaltung Verlage und Buchhandel in the Ministry of Culture of science fiction works in East Germany. These ranged from propaganda pieces supporting the scientific-technological revolution and the progress of socialism, to veiled criticisms of the system. The chapter argues that publishers became dependent on the high sales generated by popular culture, creating a relatively safe space for this genre.

Can quantum mechanics fool the cosmic censor?

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Garcia de Abranches, o censor : o MaranhaI o em 1822, memoria histoI rica /

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility.

El censor, obra periódica.

Mode of access: Internet.

El corresponsal del censor. Tomo I

Contiene: Diálogo céltico transpirenaico é hiperboreo entre el corresponsal del censor, y su maestro de latinidad (30 p.)

El corresponsal del censor. Tomo II.

Mode of access: Internet.

El corresponsal del censor. Tomo III.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Oxford review; or, Literary censor: containing analyses, criticisms, and notices of new books, domestic and foreign.

Mode of access: Internet.

El Censor.

Mode of access: Internet.

Motines y asonadas : artículo inserto en el número 61 del Censor, periódico español.

Impreso originalmente en Madrid por León Amarita