Ok science why are you springing naked singularities on me? A black hole without an event horizon? Everything goes in then gets shot out? I have just now after months of research and thought have begun to understand how much I do not understand the information paradox and now you drop this on me.
I am becoming a creationist.
The even weirder part is that everything that gets pulled into any singularity is shot out of a glory hole in a truck stop just outside of Tulsa.
Had to get that 1st reply out of my system…
So if a singularity is “naked”, what does that imply? If there is no event horizon, can it truly be a black hole, as light is escaping?
Want to read something really funny? Read last year’s science text book.
To steal a phrase from Carl Sagan, humans are on the shores of the cosmic ocean, just getting our toes wet. We don’t know what we don’t know. That’s why science evolves from one “discovery” to the next.
The universe hasn’t changed, but our perception has, through acquired knowledge.
This won’t be the only time science discovers “the world isn’t flat”, or Earth isn’t the “center of the Universe”.
Finally, enlightenment of the Universe doesn’t have to support or reject Religion. It may, however, show how medieval some religious thoughts/explanations were/are.
Had to get that 1st reply out of my system…
So if a singularity is “naked”, what does that imply? If there is no event horizon, can it truly be a black hole, as light is escaping?
because black holes are fuzzy
Are you bringing Fuzzy Logic in on this? Please don’t my little head is already splitting.
Not fuzzy logic, but the margins of a black hole where particles are escaping and others getting drawn in. Hawkings describes energy like particles splitting into matter and antimatter with the antimatter going inward consuming the black hole and the matter going outward creating a universe.
Here’s a sample article on fuzzy black holes
Quantum black holes: the event horizon as a fuzzy sphere Brian P. Dolan
Abstract. Modeling the event horizon of a black hole by a fuzzy sphere leads us to modify some suggestions in the literature concerning black hole mass spectra. We derive a formula for the mass spectrum of quantum black holes in terms of four integers which define the area, angular momentum, electric and magnetic charge of the black hole. Although the event horizon becomes a commutative sphere in the classical limit a vestige of the quantum theory still persists in that the event horizon stereographically projects onto the non-commutative plane. We also suggest how the classical bounds on extremal black holes might be modified in the quantum theory.
I read a book a few years back about physics and deep space and all that. One of the far-reaching discussions covered the concept of black holes squirting stuff out into other space and time. What this could mean is that some matter could actually exist in multiple locations at the same time.
Good luck with that head exploding and creationism thing.
I had the great pleasure of learning a few days ago that gravity might be weak because it is spread out through multiple universes. Holy hell.
Want to read something really funny? Read last year’s science text book.
To steal a phrase from Carl Sagan, humans are on the shores of the cosmic ocean, just getting our toes wet. We don’t know what we don’t know. That’s why science evolves from one “discovery” to the next.
The universe hasn’t changed, but our perception has, through acquired knowledge.
This won’t be the only time science discovers “the world isn’t flat”, or Earth isn’t the “center of the Universe”.
Finally, enlightenment of the Universe doesn’t have to support or reject Religion. It may, however, show how medieval some religious thoughts/explanations were/are.
You misunderstand the concept behind the quote. Science and the “discovery” won’t lead to a better understanding of medieval thoughts and religious/mysticism dogma. Medieval knowledge and learning and religion are on an intellectual continuum they have already been cast aside relegated to the dustbin of knowledge. Just as what we know will eventually be superseded by new knowledge. But ideas don’t go backwards, like evolution, they progress and change and cast off those ideas that don’t work or are intellectual dead ends. Medieval knowledge, while interesting, is only important to know for historical sake and for understanding where we came from.
I had the great pleasure of learning a few days ago that gravity might be weak because it is spread out through multiple universes. Holy hell.
Watch this Nova which was been called “String theory for dummies” since it is understandable by non-physicists.
or read the book the show was based on
http://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Universe-Superstrings-Dimensions-Ultimate/dp/0393058581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234134777&sr=1-1
I had the great pleasure of learning a few days ago that gravity might be weak because it is spread out through multiple universes. Holy hell.
Watch this Nova which was been called “String theory for dummies” since it is understandable by non-physicists.
http://www.amazon.com/...73&link_code=as1
or read the book the show was based on
http://www.amazon.com/...234134777&sr=1-1
Gravity just needs to HTFU! It’s the BOPer of all the forces. If it just dropped some weight and trained a little more it would be right up there with the strong nuclear force.