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Nietzsche for physicists
One of the most important philosophers in history, the German Friedrich
Nietzsche, is almost ignored by physicists. This author who declared the death
of God in the 19th century was a science enthusiast, especially in the second
period of his work. With the aid of the physical concept of force, Nietzsche
created his concept of will to power. After thinking about energy conservation,
the German philosopher had some inspiration for creating his concept of eternal
recurrence. In this article, some influences of physics on Nietzsche are
pointed out, and the topicality of his epistemological positionthe
perspectivismis discussed. Considering the concept of will to power, I
propose that the perspectivism leads to an interpretation where physics and
science in general are viewed as a game.Comment: 14 pages. Version 3 with improvements, corrections. Accepted in
Philosophia Scientia
Constraining the tidal charge of brane black holes using their shadows
A constraint on the tidal charge generated within a brane world is shown.
Using the shadow of a rotating black hole in a brane context in order to
describe the M87* parameters recently announced by the Event Horizon Telescope
Collaboration, the deviation from circularity of the reported shadow produces
an upper bound on the bulk's nonlocal effect, which is conceived of as a tidal
charge in the four-dimensional brane induced by the five-dimensional bulk.
Therefore, a deviation from circularity leads to an upper bound
on the tidal charge .Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. V2 with minor changes and new
references. Published in The European Physical Journal
Wormholes in de Sitter branes
In this work we present a class of geometries which describes wormholes in a
Randall-Sundrum brane model, focusing on de Sitter backgrounds. Maximal
extensions of the solutions are constructed and their causal structures are
discussed. A perturbative analysis is developed, where matter and gravitational
perturbations are studied. Analytical results for the quasinormal spectra are
obtained and an extensive numerical survey is conducted. Our results indicate
that the wormhole geometries presented are stable.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Regular rotating black holes and the weak energy condition
We revisit here a recent work on regular rotating black holes. We introduce a
new mass function generalizing the commonly used Bardeen and Hayward mass
functions and extend the recently proposed solutions in order to accommodate a
cosmological constant . We discuss some aspects of the causal
structure (horizons) and the ergospheres of the new proposed solutions. We also
show that, in contrast with the spherically symmetrical case, the black hole
rotation will unavoidably lead to the violation of the weak energy condition
for any physically reasonable choice of the mass function, reinforcing the idea
the description of the interior region of a Kerr black hole is much more
challenging than in the Schwarzschild case.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
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