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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes)
- Subject: Re: Black hole insights
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.030521.27309@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:05:21 GMT
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- ted@physics3 (Emory F. Bunn) writes:
- :
- : One rather strange thing is that for r<R, r is a timelike coordinate and
- : t is spacelike. So that means that the singularity r=0 is not a
- : single point in space that exists at all times; rather, it is a single
- : point in time that exists at all "distances" t. This makes it clear
- : why you can't avoid the singularity once you've crossed the horizon.
- : Since the singularity is a future point in time, you can't alter your
- : world line to avoid hitting it, any more than you can alter your world
- : line to avoid hitting next Thursday.
- :
- Right, and this also makes it clear that it is nonsense to speak of
- "gravity being so strong that even light is pulled into the central
- singularity". Would anyone say that some force is pulling him
- into next Thursday?
-