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REPERCUSSIONS. “This has implications for the validity of the generalized second law and certain quantum singularity theorems as applied to black holes.” https://lnkd.in/dUKnus8 View in LinkedIn

NO HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE. “In Part VI, I explain in more detail than in Paper I why the standard holographic interpretation of black hole entropy, in which the log of the number of black hole quantum microstates is identified with the thermodynamic Bekenstein-Hawking entropy proportional to the horizon area, is untenable if the black hole evolves into a white hole.” https://lnkd.in/dUKnus8 View in LinkedIn

NEGATIVE ENERGY. “Instead of the negative energy and quantum information associated with Hawking "partners" propagating at constant retarded time across the white hole horizon over the entire lifetime of the white hole, as in the model of Paper I, most of the negative energy remains inside a white hole of fixed Planck-scale mass until it meets the rebounding matter shell, though the quantum information may continues to emerge in the form of vacuum fluctuations propagating across the white hole horizon.” https://lnkd.in/dUKnus8 View in LinkedIn

Fearful suymmetry in Mr Puddings. View in LinkedIn

KILLING THE UNBORN. “In the simplest case, CI causes embryonic mortality in crosses between symbiont-infected males and uninfected females (unidirectional CI). Because Wolbachia-infected females can still reproduce successfully with infected males, this provides them with a fitness advantage.” (CI = cytoplasmic incompatibility). https://lnkd.in/dXjWp9f View in LinkedIn

SPACE “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. https://lnkd.in/dDeqdgh View in LinkedIn

MESSING WITH THE NUTS. “Maternally transmitted bacteria in the genus Wolbachia commonly manipulate the reproduction of their arthropod hosts by inducing cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI).” https://lnkd.in/dXjWp9f View in LinkedIn

THUMB ON THE SCALES. “In females, Wolbachia rescues the cross and allows development to proceed normally. This provides a reproductive advantage to infected females, allowing the maternally transmitted symbiont to spread rapidly through host populations.” https://lnkd.in/dXjWp9f View in LinkedIn

DEATH IF NO PARASITE IN HOST. “Cytoplasmic incompatibility is a selfish reproductive manipulation induced by the endosymbiont Wolbachia in arthropods. In males Wolbachia modifies sperm, leading to embryonic mortality in crosses with Wolbachia-free females.” https://lnkd.in/dXjWp9f View in LinkedIn