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Re: Black Holes
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Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:39:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Stefan Garcia wrote:
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> > So
> > then, why is a Black Hole always depicted as an infinite toilet-flush?
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> Because it is a good (2D) description of its gravitational potential.
I figured as much. So they really are infinitely dense pinpoints then, right?
-Stefan-
p.s. Cool rowing boat.
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| (...) That's the prevailing theory. Another is that they really are a toilet flush, with all of the sucked in matter getting spat out somewhere else through a spatial wormhole of some sort. Carl Sagan tossed that out as a possibility in Contact (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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