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D. A. MacDonald
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 10
Citations - 2404
D. A. MacDonald is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Black hole & Membrane paradigm. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 10 publications receiving 2377 citations.
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Black holes: The membrane paradigm
TL;DR: In this article, the physics of black holes are explored in terms of a membrane paradigm which treats the event horizon as a two-dimensional membrane embedded in three-dimensional space, and a 3+1 formalism is used to split Schwarzschild space-time and the laws of physics outside a nonrotating hole.
Black holes: The membrane paradigm
TL;DR: In this article, the physics of black holes are explored in terms of a membrane paradigm which treats the event horizon as a two-dimensional membrane embedded in three-dimensional space, and a 3+1 formalism is used to split Schwarzschild space-time and the laws of physics outside a nonrotating hole.
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Black-hole electrodynamics - an absolute-space/universal-time formulation
D. A. MacDonald,Kip S. Thorne +1 more
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Electrodynamics in curved spacetime: 3 + 1 formulation
Kip S. Thorne,D. A. MacDonald +1 more
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Membrane viewpoint on black holes: Dynamical electromagnetic fields near the horizon.
D. A. MacDonald,Wai-Mo Suen +1 more
TL;DR: This paper develops the concept of the ''stretched horizon,'' which will be vital for both the electromagnetic and gravitational aspects of the formalism, and it presents several model problems illustrating the interaction of dynamical electromagnetic fields with stationary black-hole horizons.