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No Naked Black Holes
Science News reports on a paper to be published in Physical Review Letters in which an international team of researchers describes their computer simulation of the most violent collision imaginable: two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed. Even in this extreme scenario, Roger Penrose's weak cosmic censorship hypothesis seems to hold — the resulting black hole (after the gravitational waves have died down) retains its event horizon. "Mathematically, 'naked' singularities, or those without event horizons, can exist, but physicists wouldn't know what to make of them. All known mechanisms for the formation of singularities also create an event horizon, and Penrose conjectured that there must be some physical principle — a 'cosmic censor' — that forbids singularity nakedness ..."
Oh jeez.
They're all Greek to me.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
It's already asking a lot for nerdlings to not snicker at any reference to a "hole".
Adding in nakedness just goes beyond any reasonable expectation of restraint.
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Penrose conjectured that there must be some physical principle â" a 'cosmic censor' â" that forbids singularity nakedness...
God, is that you?
Seems to me, most people on Slashdot likely *only* experience singularity nakedness.
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...the maximal Cauchy development of generic compact or asymptotically flat initial data is locally inextendible as a regular Lorentzian manifold.
Right?
Lemmings are silly; dinosaurs are extinct.
There is no magical singularity where the laws of physics break down. There doesn't need to be.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, dude.
That's heavy, Doc.
In other words, yo momma's so fat, her Schwarzchild radius is visible to the naked eye?
Which is why the DVDs "Physicists Gone Wild" were never really successful. Although the LHC did turn up as the hottest collider in Europe, so far still no naked singularities.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Confucius say "Physicist who say there is no naked singularity should examine their equations through a peep hole."
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
You had me at naked...
Anything that starts with
"Friends,"
is likely homosexual in itself. What a schmuck.
...the most violent collision imaginable: two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed.
What about 3 black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed?
That would cause some other hairy problems, spelling being the least of them.
Show a man some news, distract him for an hour. Show a man some mod points, distract him for the rest of his life.
I believe that some solutions have space being discrete at the Planck length, rather than continuous, and this discreteness also removes singluarities.
I spent $82,000 on tube amplifiers and vintage vinyl, and now you tell me God's system is digital? Auuuugghh...
Having the massive intellect to comprehend the answers to all these questions does not make one less depressed.
Marvin.
I get sad assuming there be intelligent beings about. Oh well...
Dude, that's so lame. For jokes about black holes, look no farther than the uncyclopedia.
Black hole
Event Horizon
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
And of course we can't forget YOUR MOM!
No go away or I shall taunt you again.
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