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No Naked Singularity After Black Hole Collision
AstroEngine ^ | 10/7/08 | Ian O'Neill

Posted on 10/13/2008 12:28:52 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 10/13/2008 12:28:53 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker; KevinDavis

Space ping


2 posted on 10/13/2008 12:32:19 AM PDT by wastedyears (Now sadly living in the DPRNYC [Brooklyn])
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To: LibWhacker

Is this article talking about the national debt?


3 posted on 10/13/2008 12:38:26 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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I have a question if anyone here is enough of an astrophysics professional to answer it. As gravity increases, time slows and at the event horizon, time essentially stops. If that’s the case, then as a star collapses, time slows and slows as the gravity increases but if the collapse slows, how can it every finish and reach the point where time stops? Wouldn’t each black hole essentially be forever trying to finish forming but not finish forming until the “end of time”?


4 posted on 10/13/2008 12:46:40 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080725102720AAF8bdx
5 posted on 10/13/2008 12:51:53 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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This is fortunate, as modern physics has no way to describe what a naked singularity would look like. -Ian O'Neil

What, those modern physicists have never seen a National Geographics?

6 posted on 10/13/2008 1:17:00 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: LibWhacker

That doesn’t really answer my question. The equation for velocity is v = d/t or vt = d so as time (t) approaches zero, the distance covered also approaches zero. So it’s not simply a matter of the image being frozen but of the actual movement being frozen, too, at least from the outside frame of reference.


7 posted on 10/13/2008 1:34:02 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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Well, that’s good. I don’t want a naked singularity in the first place.


8 posted on 10/13/2008 1:36:16 AM PDT by BCrago66
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If you were there, though, would it seem like not forever but as a very short amount of time, all things being relative.


9 posted on 10/13/2008 1:46:15 AM PDT by Bellflower (A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
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To: LibWhacker
You can manipulate a black hole as much as you like but you’ll never get rid of its event horizon

Not touching that one at all...

But personally, I believe if B Hussein Obama is elected we'll all be living in a black hole (no racial connotations intended!).

10 posted on 10/13/2008 3:48:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Ray-Zizt! Now you peeps be callin’ Obama a black hole!


11 posted on 10/13/2008 3:58:37 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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IOW: “Have you ever seen a grown singularity nekkid?”


12 posted on 10/13/2008 4:05:00 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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What about 3 colliding singularities?...
Obama, Pelosi, Reid


13 posted on 10/13/2008 4:10:23 AM PDT by Safrguns
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“where the laws of physics do not apply”
If things really work differently at a singularity, then that’s part of the laws of physics too, and the laws of physics need to be revised to include that.
Problem is scientists really think that their “laws” rule and control the universe.
Wrong.
Scientific “laws” are an attempt to understand and describe the workings of the Universe. If the “laws” are wrong, they must be revised.
Since present scientific “laws” don’t explain the origin of the Universe, often referred to as the “big bang”, they are in question.


14 posted on 10/13/2008 4:51:28 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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Naked Singularity?

ttiwwp

15 posted on 10/13/2008 5:01:31 AM PDT by Hoodat (Obama's only connection to the descendants of American Slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them)
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Naked Singularity?

ttiwwp

16 posted on 10/13/2008 5:06:41 AM PDT by Hoodat (Obama's only connection to the descendants of American Slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them)
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To: BCrago66

Does the singularity look like Sarah or like Hillary?


17 posted on 10/13/2008 5:19:10 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: LibWhacker

Alas, father time has greatly diminished my naked singularity!


18 posted on 10/13/2008 5:20:17 AM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Question_Assumptions

Zeno’s paradox? Similar to the problem of movement toward a threshold. You can always divide the distance needed in half. So if you go halfway, you can then go halfway again, then halfway again, ad infinitum. Thus you never reach the threshold.


19 posted on 10/13/2008 5:24:59 AM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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No to naked sigularityism. I you allow just one singularity to be naked you must allow them all. Stand up of the rights of the cloaked singularity.
;P


20 posted on 10/13/2008 5:53:29 AM PDT by champisme (The more I know, the less I understand.)
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