Wednesday, September 10, 2014

black holes - Why can't a particle rotate opposite to the central mass within the ergosphere?


Wiki says about the Kerr metric:



A moving particle experiences a positive proper time along its worldline, its path through spacetime. However, this is impossible within the ergosphere, where gtt is negative, unless the particle is co-rotating with the interior mass M with an angular speed at least of Ω. Thus, no particle can rotate opposite to the central mass within the ergosphere.



I don't get it. Can it be somehow seen that gtt is negative from


gμνxμxν=1c2Δ(r2+α2+rsrα2ρ2sin2θ)(t)2+2rsrαcρ2Δϕt1Δsin2θ(1rsrρ2)(ϕ)2Δρ2(r)21ρ2(θ)2?


And why can't no particle can rotate opposite to the central mass within the ergosphere?




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