Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 09:34:29 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: don@PartsNow.com, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711121734.JAA01114@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:08:50 GMT." <199711120108.SAA17561@usr04.primenet.com>
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If light can not escape from a black hole then how much does a photon weight ? Curious, should faster than the speed of lights particles should exist what will be their effect if such a particle collided with a particle? Cheers, Amancio > > Actually, I have a simpler question how can anyone describe > > singularity -- where the laws of physics as we now today > > breakdown. Assuming of course that black holes and singularity > > exists.... > > A black hole is not a singularity, per se, except for the idea that > that ds/dt goes to zero at the Schwartzchild Radius (which is > inside the event horizon). > > If you think about it, once the escape velocity is the speed of light, > then the Lorentz Transformation implies that all matter falling into > the hole will cease experiencing time at that point. If it can't > experience time, it can't experience velocity. The amount of time > that would have to necessarily pass for it to reach this point exceeds > by O(1) infinity the age of the universe. > > So technically, nothing has ever fallen *into* a "black hole" ...yet. > > 8-). > > Actually, it's no more nonsensical to think of pair anihillation in > a black hole than it is to think of pair production at the edge of > the event horizon (as we believe is happening at Cygnus XI). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers.
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