Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:08:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: don@PartsNow.com, nate@mt.sri.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711120108.SAA17561@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199711112248.OAA06592@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Nov 11, 97 02:48:17 pm
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> 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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