: RD: Black holes break the second law of thermodynamics. Time is rather strange in a black hole as well.

I wouldn't say that time is strange in a blackhole because it is the same as it is in our universe, only in a different direction. The time axis of a black hole would be simply perpindicular to ours.......you may have heard this be called "imaginary time". So in a blackhole you would live in a perpindicular universe to ours that's all. It may seem like time is extremely distorted to our outside frame of reference which is true but it wouldn't be wierd to you in the hole unless you were to glance back out at us and realize that the entire universe passed you by. Also, if the second law of thermodynamics were broken in a black hole then the Hawking radiation effect wouldn't exist. The reason it does exist is that the entropy of a blackhole is stored as information on the surface area of the evnt horizon. You probably already knew about this so I won't go into detail but simply put,.....with entropy comes temperature and with temperature comes dispersion of radiation. So the blackhole never did break the law of physics and if it did (once again) there would be no Hawking Effect. Hawking said it himself, and that's how the whole theory was even thought of......entropy must always increase.

• You can't do that - Flaker - September 16, 1999 - 02:46 UTC
  • Re: You can't do that - CL/">CL - September 16, 1999 - 22:02 UTC
    • Re: You can't do that - RD/">RD - September 17, 1999 - 12:17 UTC
    • Re: You can't do that - RD/">RD - September 17, 1999 - 12:18 UTC
      • Re: You can't do that - CL/">CL - September 17, 1999 - 21:37 UTC
        • Re: You can't do that - RD:_/">RD: - September 21, 1999 - 12:10 UTC
          • Yes......I agree - CL - September 23, 1999 - 00:35 UTC
• Re: Time is all in your head..... - RD/">RD - September 16, 1999 - 11:51 UTC