Unveiling the Electrodynamic Nature of Spacetime Collisions

E. R. M. is grateful for discussions with Cynthia Keeler, Mark Scheel, and Anatoly Spitkovsky. S. B. acknowledges support through Caltech’s SURF program. J. W. acknowledges partial support through the David and Barbara Groce graduate fellowship. E. R. M. acknowledges partial support by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants No. PHY-2309210 and No. AST-2307394. E. R. M. acknowledges the use of Delta at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) through allocation PHY210074 from the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program, which is supported by National Science Foundation Grants No. 2138259, No. 2138286, No. 2138307, No. 2137603, and No. 2138296. Additional simulations were performed on the NSF Frontera supercomputer under Grant No. AST21006. E. R. M. also acknowledges support through DOE NERSC supercomputer Perlmutter under Grant No. m4575, which uses resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 using NERSC award NP-ERCAP0028480.