Re: The End of Time and Black Holes
From: Tom Capizzi (etianshrdlu_at_verizon.net)
Date: 03/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:15:36 GMT
"Nick" <macromitch@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Time cannot go any faster for matter in the curved time
> of General Relativity. It can only go slower and that
> only by adding motion.
>
> But if it ends then everything(else) ends.
> Where (gravitational) time ends there can
> be no more proper time.
>
> Since time ends at the edge of a black hole
> it would not continue inside. Matter falls
> at light speed there. Again the end of time
> for matter.
>
> Consider time never ends; for if it did it would
> be an absolute end. Time continues.
>
> There are no endings in the form of event horizons
> or singularities. There are black holes but they
> have no horizons and will only approach being
> singularities. They simply shrink forever without
> reaching a singularity.
> Otherwise curvature goes up but never becomes infinite.
>
> As hawking has said "General Relativity predicts its
> own downfall by predicting singularities."
> Singularities are infinite space time curvature.
> But there are no infinite physical quantities.
Curvature is a calculated quantity, just like slope. Even in simple
coordinate systems any vertical line has infinite slope. Or how
about Zeno's Paradox? It takes an infinite number of steps to reach
a goal a finite distance away. Or how about the surface of revolution
which encloses a finite volume with an infinite amount of surface area?
How much ideal paint does it take to cover it? As far as singularities
are concerned, it only exists at a single point of infinitesimal size. The
integral of such a quantity over all space can easily be finite.
> Mitch -- Gravity is a Continuum --
>
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