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To: LibWhacker

What really is the difference between a singularity and a black hole? How can someone theorize a point with all the mass in the universe, without that point being a black hole?


10 posted on 09/19/2013 7:18:37 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
My understanding is that, in general, a singularity is just a region of spacetime that you can't get any information out of or into. You can't make any predictions or draw any conclusions or inferences about what's there. Our models break down.

So there is the technological singularity a la Kurzweil. In math, it's a function that goes to infinity and you can't do anything with it at that point. In physics, the only kind of singularities I can think of are stellar black holes, supermassive black holes and universes in some kind of giant multiverse.

IMO, when we're talking about all the mass of our universe being compressed into an infinitely dense black hole, we're talking about something that is many, many orders of magnitude more massive than a regular black hole and may therefore, perhaps, be a totally different kind of creature, as we've seen so many times before in physics when our focus changes by many orders of magnitude. Just my two cents; I'm definitely no physicist!

22 posted on 09/19/2013 7:58:43 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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