Horrendous Space Kablooie
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July 16th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Hmm, interesting.
Define: Interesting.
Oh God, oh God, we’re all gonna die.
July 16th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
You have to give Joe a break for being fascinated by something known as “The Big Bang”
July 16th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
I’ve never liked special relativity. It’s all a bunch of bunk, in my opinion… nothing more than perception, since everything we measure is measured with light, and the speed of light is fixed in all inertial reference frames. I’m not convinced that there’s really any dilation of time or space, or that mass has increased due to mere differences in velocity. The interesting stuff only happens after an acceleration, that is to say, in non inertial reference frames, and that’s the realm of the evil general relativity.
July 16th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
da-da-da-da-da….da-da….TEQUILA!!
July 17th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Great idea. Doesn’t work. But this is a great sci-fi script. Hawking would explain that the leaked radiation would cook us at our place on the event horizon.
July 18th, 2010 at 11:35 am
I had a typo in the tile and when I fixed it the link broke. This is now the correct link.
Number9,
If my hypothesis is correct we went through the event horizon about 13 billion years ago. Any “cooking” would have long since been over with and we would have had time to cool down after that. And in our situation I don’t think the intensity of Hawking radiation is all that large anyway.
The temperature of the black body radiation (type of energy given off by Hawking radiation) is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole. Because the mass of our black hole is exceedingly large the temperature at the event horizon is very, very low. I further hypothesize the “background radiation from the remnants of the big bang” is the Hawking radiation from the event horizon at the time we passed through the event horizon. That, of course, is on the order 2.7 Kelvin. Not exactly “cooking” temperature.
July 18th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Uncle, Frederik Pohl, loathesome Commy that he seems to be, was onto this years ago in the Heechee novels. You really need to keep up on yer SF.
Sadly, entirely too many physicists, over the years, seem to have been seduced by the Dark Side of politics. Oppenheimer’s is the first name which comes to mind.
July 18th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Hmmm, seduced to the dark side, do they have cookies? I like cookies, cookies good, FIRE BAAAADDD.