RE: Black Holes
Hello Giles and Maria,
Yes, this sounds like it. I didn't hear all of the story because I was flitting between bedroom and bathroom and only caught odd snippets of the story.
David - more research needs to be done, yes.
Love,
Patsy.
xxxxx
RE: Black Holes
Anyway, Patsy, you got me looking up 'Hawkins radiation' (from the article). I get the concept of that, but certainly not the maths! 😀
Venetian
RE: Black Holes
Oh, me neither, David. I go blank when faced with numbers, especially formulae and equations. I switch right off, I have to confess.
Now, put a balance or profit and loss sheet or a bank reconcilation in front of me, and things are a lot different.....heh!
Love,
Patsy.
xxxxx
RE: Black Holes
According to what I've read so far there are 2 possible fates when encountering a black hole:
1) You fall into the "hole", are crushed to something probably a few Planck* long. Actually as soon as you hit the event horizon** you'll probably be evaporated by the soup of super-accelerated particles being dragged into the hole.
2) Just as you enter the event horizon, the BH gets indigestion and throughs you out as part of a stream of - you guessed it - super-accelerated particles and if you're really lucky, you won't get dragged back in.
So whichever way you look at it, going near a BH is to be avoided if at all possible and sorry, even the best of those anti-friz shampoo's really isn't going to help you look your best when the black hole finally decays (or explodes - new theory going around).
* Planck -> About 10'33 centimeters or about a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter.
** Event Horizon -> Nothing to do with a bad sci-fi film and more to do with the point around a black hole at which light can't escape, or the edge if you want it in non-science teacher terms.
Trev - who doesn't understand the maths either