Introducing Horizons

NEW HORIZONS New horizons in osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of arthritis worldwide and rapidly increasing with ageing populations. It is a major source of pain and disability for individuals and economic burden for health economies. Modern imaging, in particular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has helped us to understand that OA is a dynamic remodelling process involving all the structures within the joint. ...

Expanding horizons

Enhanced Horizons

Half-supersymmetric geometries of N = 2 five-dimensional gauged supergravity have recently been fully classified using spinorial geometry techniques. We use this classification to determine all possible regular halfsupersymmetric near-horizon geometries, assuming that all of the gaugeinvariant spinor bilinears are regular at the horizon. Four geometries are found, two of which have been found p...

Wavy Horizons?

We describe the application of a gravity wave-generating technique to certain higher dimensional black holes. We find that the induced waves generically destroy the event horizon producing parallelly propagated curvature singularities. Based on a talk presented at the Seventh Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics in Calgary, AB, Canada, May 31 – June 7, 1997. E...

Killing Horizons

QED in two-dimensional Minkowski space contains a single physical state as seen either by an inertial observer or by a constantly accelerating Rindler observer. However in Feynman gauge if one takes a generic representative of the physical Minkowski state and traces over all left Rindler states, one does not arrive at the physical right Rindler state, but rather at a “density matrix” with negat...