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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (24362)	7/5/2006 6:07:51 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Would you say that material entering a black hole shrinks?

To: one_less who wrote (24362)	7/5/2006 6:20:41 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Somebody will probably argue with that description, I suppose I should argue since either of those descriptions disagree with my physics classes. Think of a black hole as a really massive planet. Each planet has a characteristic speed in which something must go in order to leave the planet and achieve orbit. A little more speed and the item will leave the planet entirely. This is called escape velocity. On earth it is about 25000 miles/hour and that is how fast the shuttle had to go to get into orbit. The more massive the planet, the faster something must go in order to achieve orbit. A black hole is so massive that the speed necessary to go into orbit is faster than the speed of light, and since nothing can go that fast, nothing can leave the black to go into orbit. In order to "see" anything, some partical (or wave) must be bounced off it and return to us. Anything sent to a black hole is sucked up completely. In other words, any detectable material in a black hole doesn't just get homogenized with other material and lose it's structure. It becomes unavailable to observation. "Where does the stuff go that goes into a black hole?" Unknown. The gravitational force in a black hole is larger than any known force so it could crush things really really small.