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Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form
PhysOrg ^ | 6/20/07

Posted on 06/20/2007 4:12:14 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: Williams

There’s something there. It’s just not as described in the literature. Information is not lost.


21 posted on 06/20/2007 5:20:47 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: kcar
Watched a show on the Science Channel recently about string theory/M-theory and (some) physicists are beginning to answer some of those questions... the theory involved giant rippling membranes floating around in 13-dimensional space, occasionally colliding... wherever they touch a new universe is created. Believe me, I didn't understand it, lol.

What's fun is when they start talking about creating an entire universe in the lab, one that is just as large as ours, has just as much matter in it, and one that will hyper-expand just as rapidly ours. But don't worry. It won't hurt us. It'll make its own space as it goes through its Big Bang period and not intrude into ours.

22 posted on 06/20/2007 5:32:31 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

NOT GUILTY!!

Oops... Wrong thread.

My bad.


23 posted on 06/20/2007 5:35:56 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: gcruse
...all its familiar properties, which froms FROM a collapsing star...
24 posted on 06/20/2007 5:36:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

WHICH FORMS FROM!!!

i give :-(


25 posted on 06/20/2007 5:38:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Mariner

Actually, no observer would survive long enough to find out. Tidal forces would rip them to pieces long before they reached the event horizon.


26 posted on 06/20/2007 5:41:33 PM PDT by irv
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To: yorkie

Quite fascinating. Thank you for the link. We live our normal lives in a very narrow range of physical magnitudes.


27 posted on 06/20/2007 5:49:26 PM PDT by Blennos (Baton Rouge)
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To: LibWhacker

My brain hurts. The bit in quantum physics about observations being effected by the fact of observation gives me the willies. Going back to pondering why any Republicans would support this amnesty bill.


28 posted on 06/20/2007 5:56:40 PM PDT by kcar
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To: Mariner

Tidal effects would be lethal long before getting to the event horizon. Assuming The invention of gravity opaque paint (I think H.G. Wells originally came up with the idea) and you survived the tidal forces, you would perceive yourself falling headlong towards the black hole. If somebody 10 billion years from now could retrieve you, you would perceive them pulling you out in the nick of time.

Very similar to the speed of light. If you could constantly accelerate at one gravity, you would eventually percieve that you were traveling faster than the speed of light but outside observers would see us as slowly approaching the speed of light but never reaching it. From the perspective of a photon, it is emitted from a star and instantly appears at it’s destination but from our perspective, they can take billions of years to reach us.


29 posted on 06/20/2007 6:09:49 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: gcruse

They are trying to say, a point singularity cannot form. The collapsing matter will form something that from our perspective is a black hole but in reality is something different.

The object will be terribly dense but over the course of eternity will never form the classic singularity.


30 posted on 06/20/2007 6:16:21 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: dangerdoc
So if time slows to a near stop for someone inside the event horizon would outside observers be able to view this happening? Or would no light make it outside and look as if that person just vaporized?
31 posted on 06/20/2007 6:25:59 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: dangerdoc

Another question...how do photons “travel” then do they pass through some sort of “subspace” or another dimension to get to it’s destination?


32 posted on 06/20/2007 6:29:29 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: gcruse

there is no such thing as “time” in and of itself. “time” is delta kinetic energy. Don’t think so? Demonstrate a time event that is NOT a kinetic energy event.


33 posted on 06/20/2007 6:33:27 PM PDT by timer (n/0=n=nx0)
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To: timer

I’d certainly never argue time with someone named timer. ;)


34 posted on 06/20/2007 7:12:47 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Ok, I have had a few beers……… If they claim that an outside observer cannot distinguish an object passing through the event horizon because “it will never pass over”, considering the effects of quantum mechanics. Where the object takes an infinite amount of time to pass over the event horizon, why would the observer be prevented from collecting any data from it assuming the observer would not be effected by the event itself? The only other question I want an answer to is, why is a duck?, and if so, why not?


35 posted on 06/20/2007 7:36:56 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("life is dangerous")
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To: miliantnutcase

From our perspective, they would redshift to the point we could no longer measure the light.


36 posted on 06/20/2007 7:37:58 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: READINABLUESTATE

BECAUSE!


37 posted on 06/20/2007 7:40:03 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase

From a newtonian stand point, it is a little massless cannon ball that plods along at the speed of light unless, it interacts with something.

From a quantum standpoint, it is something entirely different that can only really be described by mathmatical formulas.


38 posted on 06/20/2007 7:42:09 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: dangerdoc

This is really fascinating stuff that makes my head spin. Do you have any links to some sites that explain quantum physics to dummies(if it can be done)? This stuff goes way beyond my college physics and math.


39 posted on 06/20/2007 7:58:00 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase

BECAUSE!

The event horizon, or the duck?

I wonder how many people world wide are following a conversation about a non-event, event horizon? (another question one beer later)


40 posted on 06/20/2007 8:09:11 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("life is dangerous")
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