Happy Halloween

Blackholes Forum Message

Forums: Atm · Astrophotography · Blackholes · Blackholes2 · CCD · Celestron · Domes · Education
Eyepieces · Meade · Misc. · God and Science · SETI · Software · UFO · XEphem
RSS Button

Home | Discussion Forums | Blackholes I | Post
Login

Be the first pioneers to continue the Astronomy Discussions at our new Astronomy meeting place...
The Space and Astronomy Agora
Re: Singularities

Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To
Posted by Charles Sharp/">Charles Sharp on August 2, 1999 21:16:51 UTC

: In my opinion singularities cannot possibly exist. It would take an infinite amount of time to crush something into infinite density. An object could just get smaller and smaller no matter at what speed it collapses without reaching 0 size. You cannot possibly collapse an object out of existence, maybe in another universe that has different laws, but not in our universe. Tell me what you think, I would be glad to read your opinions.

Black holes exist in the infinite. Reletivity states that as an object approaches the schwartzchild radius time slows down accoring to the twins paradox. At the event horizon the temperal distortion becomes infinite, and therefore, the star could take an infinitley long time to become infinitly dense and still exist in this universe. Check out "About Time" by Paul Davies for a good description of black holes and other physics related materials.

Follow Ups:

    Login to Post
    Additional Information
    Google
     
    Web www.astronomy.net
    DayNightLine
    About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | Contact & Comments | Privacy Policy
    Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2024 John Huggins All Rights Reserved
    Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post.
    "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET"
    are trademarks of John Huggins