Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
Oct 24 2005, 03:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Cornell President Rawlings Condemns Intelligent Design
Drawing from sources ranging from Cornell's founders to Voyager space missions, Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III condemned the push to teach intelligent design in public schools Friday. The attack came during the president's State of... http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/...4/435c7762cf891 "The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress." - Bertrand Russell -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Nov 20 2005, 05:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Hmmmm... if escape velocity at the surface of the NS is about .5c, and if the attraction of the BH reaches exactly 1c at the event horizon, then it stands to reason that at some point *outside* of the event horizon, the BH will pull at the NS hard enough to cause some particles to reach escape velocity.
The real question is, how far outside of the event horizon does the BH's attraction exceed the escape velocity from the NS? The curvature of space that close to a BH is extremely sharp -- it's possible that the BH doesn't exert enough force to induce the NS's disintegration until just before it touches the event horizon. Also, as the NS disintegrates, the extremely dense mass of the stream of matter being sucked into the BH would exert its own gravitational force on the remaining mass of the NS. What bends my brain is that there *must* be effects on the NS mass that has yet to fall within the event horizon based on the gravitational field fluctuations caused by the mass that has already fallen below the EH. But since Einsteinian physics cannot predict or describe the properties of mass or energy that has been accelerated beyond (or at least exactly to) 1c, it's very, very difficult to gain any insight into what's happening to the mass that falls within the EH, and how its gravitation affects the behavior of the remaining mass as it's swallowed. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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