Originally posted by: silverpig
The answer for the first one is "a black hole" The event horizon is just the "point of no return" if you will, for a particular black hole.
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Well I was deffinitely not thinking of either because they refer to things whose gravity is so strong that light can't escape. I was thinking more of a time, really a time before time, when gravity had not begun it's journey at the speed of light becaose everything that is, gravity encluded, had no space to cross. Such a thing is not just a singularity because a singularity exists in space, but this thingi is everything with no space. My questions sort of emply the geometry of a figure eight or an hourglass, since time may also be passing, in some sense through the funnel, but an hourglass you don't necessarily have to trun over because it is running both ways at once like a mobius. It's sort of like the blown ends of the glass are the curvature of soace and the funnel the point of creation and end all at once. And maybe there are seven of those hourglasses that are really an octave of eight.
What is it called when a force reaches a state when it is nolonger another force? Is that called a "break in semetry". I can't remember. I'm thingking temperatures and pressures where say the magnetic and electric force or the strong and weak force were identical or unified. How many of those do we know of. I think there should be seven and the one where they are all bound together as eight.
Originally posted by: deftron
So if the Sun imploded.. we'd have 8 minutes before total darkess and flying off into space ?
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
OK, oLLie, I don't know how smart it is, but tell Carbonyl he's making the same reading error that was made earlier. A black hole is a place from which light can't escape. What is a place from which gravity is strong GRAVITY (Not just light) can't escape.
You could also say something like, "Her who controls gravity controls the universe."
Originally posted by: silverpig
Moonbeam brings up a VERY good point here. Light cannot escape from a black hole because the escape velocity for a particle trying to leave the black hole from inside the event horizon is greater than the speed of light. If gravitons also travel at the speed of light, then there has to be something inherently different in the way they travel. After all, if we think of gravitons as being similar to photons and being pseudo-particles originating from a source, they would have to try and escape the black hole from within the event horizon. I guess we can draw a few conclusions from this. I guess gravitons must be able to get out of the event horizon without having to actually traverse the space inside it. Perhaps they travel in 4 spatial dimensions? Maybe the graviton/matter interaction is a one way thing. Gravitons can affect matter, but matter cannot affect them... only create them (creating energy there?) Perhaps gravitons originate from the actual curves in space and not from the matter itself. Maybe the black hole effects the curve, but the curve itself is what creates the gravitons and pulls you in... Interesting thoughts at least. I'd really like to talk to a prof about this when I get another chance...Originally posted by: Moonbeam OK, oLLie, I don't know how smart it is, but tell Carbonyl he's making the same reading error that was made earlier. A black hole is a place from which light can't escape. What is a place from which gravity is strong GRAVITY (Not just light) can't escape. You could also say something like, "Her who controls gravity controls the universe."
Originally posted by: Madcowz
no sir... actually an event horizon is rather a kick-ass sci-fi movie![]()
Originally posted by: BDawg
Originally posted by: Darein
Yeah. An article said that if the sun were to disappear it would take about 8 minutes for the Earth to react.
At the same time, the second we saw that it disappeared, the effect of gravity would already be on us...so it's not like you'd have 8 minutes for last chance sex.
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Originally posted by: silverpig
Moonbeam brings up a VERY good point here. Light cannot escape from a black hole because the escape velocity for a particle trying to leave the black hole from inside the event horizon is greater than the speed of light. If gravitons also travel at the speed of light, then there has to be something inherently different in the way they travel. After all, if we think of gravitons as being similar to photons and being pseudo-particles originating from a source, they would have to try and escape the black hole from within the event horizon. I guess we can draw a few conclusions from this. I guess gravitons must be able to get out of the event horizon without having to actually traverse the space inside it. Perhaps they travel in 4 spatial dimensions? Maybe the graviton/matter interaction is a one way thing. Gravitons can affect matter, but matter cannot affect them... only create them (creating energy there?) Perhaps gravitons originate from the actual curves in space and not from the matter itself. Maybe the black hole effects the curve, but the curve itself is what creates the gravitons and pulls you in... Interesting thoughts at least. I'd really like to talk to a prof about this when I get another chance...Originally posted by: Moonbeam OK, oLLie, I don't know how smart it is, but tell Carbonyl he's making the same reading error that was made earlier. A black hole is a place from which light can't escape. What is a place from which gravity is strong GRAVITY (Not just light) can't escape. You could also say something like, "Her who controls gravity controls the universe."
The answer is gravitons ARE gravity. They do not need to be able to escape from themselves.
Originally posted by: silverpig
The answer for the first one is "a black hole"
The event horizon is just the "point of no return" if you will, for a particular black hole.