APPARENT ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC ENERGY DENSITY INFLATION OF ASTROPHYSICAL BODIES INTO APPARENT BLACK STARS
JEFFREY S. LEE
Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group, Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research, Baylor University, USA
GERALD B. CLEAVER *
Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group, Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research, Baylor University, USA and Department of Physics, Baylor University, One Bear Place, Waco, TX 76706, USA
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
In this note, an interesting result of relativistic effects between inertial reference frames is offered as a gedanken experiment: to observers in one inertial frame, objects in another inertial frame approaching or receding differentially close to the speed of light, relative to the observers’ inertial frame, will appear to experience both significant mass inflation and length contraction, resulting in greatly inflated observed energy densities. This note determines, from the point of view of the observers, the respective Lorentz factors above which an arbitrary spherical object will appear to attain a black star density and an apparent Planck density.
Keywords: Length contraction, density inflation, black star density, Planck density