Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Birth?
Two things to bear in mind.
And before I am inundated with explanations -- I'm trying to be silly here, I know how an event horizon works!
- When something is born it usually emerges from something else
- A black hole is a gravity well so deep and dense that NOTHING, not even light, can escape from it
Given those facts, is this not an unfortunate metaphorical choice
"The birth cry of a black hole is one way people like to put it," Gehrels saidHow can something from which nothing can escape emerge from anything? Wouldn't it swallow that from which it emerged? And since no light can emerge from it, how would you know?
And before I am inundated with explanations -- I'm trying to be silly here, I know how an event horizon works!
