Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Black Hole complimentarity.

A new cat on the block. It seems to be Siamese oriented (get the pun here) but meandered off as I approached. Here he is.
I swear it gets weirder the more I learn. We all know that black holes are objects from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The point at which everything is swallowed is called the event horizon. The weirdness is when you take into account the Theory of Relativity and what one would see when passing through the event horizon or when one is sitting outside the black hole watching what happens. The person passing through the event horizon would feel nothing, it would seem to be the same as outside the event horizon. The person outside the event horizon would see the person passing through the event horizon appear to stretch as he/she passed through, finally ending up as electrons, protons and quarks. The two appearances is called complementarity, specifically Black Hole complementarity. The reason they appear different is because inside the black hole time itself is changed while appearing unchanged to the outsiders as shown by Relativity.
Relativity teaches us that we're all on this flight together.

Dick

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