To: Hawkmoon who wrote (88700 ) 8/11/2002 7:06:13 PM From: E. Charters Respond to of 116770 yup. Black hole centres are weightless areas. No smoking too. And gentlemen must remove their hats. Eventually the forces of gravity at a black hole causes a breakdown in matter and the black hole will tear itself apart. Black holes are very tiny. Matter is compressed far more than in a neutron star where one cubic centimetre weighs more than a 10 trillion battleships. (the earth weighs the same as 46 thousand trillion battleships) +++ If all the empty space in all the atoms of earth were removed, it would fit inside a basketball. And it would still not be as dense as a neutron star. And this is light compared to a black hole. It would seem to me that black holes are cold. This may be because matter is much too compressed to vibrate or to move in order to split other neutrons, which are the only mechanisms of heat. The energy of compression itself could cause heat, but this would seem to indicate there would be expansion, which is impossible. Again heat is defined as molecular movement, so if there were none, no heat could be measured. If anyone is near a black hole, perhaps they could check this out. I can lend them my black hole meter, which detects the black hole heartbeat of non emitted radiation. The amount of non emitted radiation would be huge, so it shouldn't be too hard to detect by methods of relative absence detection. Don't get too near the edge. Black holes could be intelligent too, as there is nothing militating against the formation of neural circuits within the dense matrix. The transfer of very dense thought events from particle to particle within the black hole matrix takes place by the random bounce of a massless, chargeless particle known as the hutcherino. No palpable transfer of information outside the BH event horizon can take place however, so this transfer is moot to the rest of the sentient universe. EC<:-} If one did not travel the Universe at warp speed, one would likely get captured by the immense gravitational fields of these invisible lurking bodies. One must remember that the milky way itself is a star cluster rotating around a black hole and eventually all the stars in it will get sucked in to a cloak-ed void. I can feel myself getting dizzy now. Bye Bye, Blackbird. EC<:-}