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Strings, Black Holes and Lorentz Contraction

Leonard Susskind

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9308139

Abstract

Consistency of quantum mechanics in black hole physics requires unusual Lorentz transformation properties of the size and shape of physical systems with momentum beyond the Planck scale. A simple parton model illustrates the kind of behavior which is needed. It is then shown that conventional fundamental string theory shares these features.

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