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THE UNBEARABLE BEINGNESS OF LIGHT โ€” Dressingand Undressing Photonsin Black Hole Spacetimes

THE UNBEARABLE BEINGNESS OF LIGHT โ€” Dressingand Undressing Photonsin Black Hole Spacetimes

Gravitational tidal forces acting on the virtual e + e - cloud surrounding a photon endow spacetime with a nontrivial refractive index. This has remarkable properties unique to gravitational theories including superluminal low-frequency propagation, in apparent violation of causality, and amplification of the renormalized photon field, in apparent violation of โ€ฆ