I think I will bow out of Slashdot completely for the new year. As sad as it may sound, I think there are doers and then there are those who read
Slashdot. I'm horrified to be associated with the latter.
Don't let the door hit you in the butt.
I guess I don't have this guy's morals, 'cuz I'll still be here, reading away
I haven't heard of Sagan's Lifeform, but in Clarke's Odyssey trilogy (was it _2010_ ?), Dave Bowman travels through the clouds of Jupiter and witnesses living clouds, with predators, social interaction, and the like. It's a really neat idea, and Clarke even explains that these lifeforms could NEVER develop real intelligence, because they evolved more like amoebae than proper animals. He takes great care to describe Jupiter's (theorized)diamond core, too.
If an optical black hole can be created by passing light through a medium that causes the light to slow down relative to the speed of the vortex, does this mean that the observed effect (specific-frequency light can't escape) is caused completely by the vortex? This could lead me to believe that a REAL black hole only creates a gravity well because it creates such a strong vortex in the medium of spacetime. This may already be the common belief of black holes, but I always thought that a black hole was just a massive point in space that sucked stuff straight into it and matter falling into it followed the path of a vortex. Could it be that the gravity well surrounding a singularity is CAUSED by the vortex action around it?
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I guess I don't have this guy's morals, 'cuz I'll still be here, reading away
I haven't heard of Sagan's Lifeform, but in Clarke's Odyssey trilogy (was it _2010_ ?), Dave Bowman travels through the clouds of Jupiter and witnesses living clouds, with predators, social interaction, and the like. It's a really neat idea, and Clarke even explains that these lifeforms could NEVER develop real intelligence, because they evolved more like amoebae than proper animals. He takes great care to describe Jupiter's (theorized)diamond core, too.
If an optical black hole can be created by passing light through a medium that causes the light to slow down relative to the speed of the vortex, does this mean that the observed effect (specific-frequency light can't escape) is caused completely by the vortex? This could lead me to believe that a REAL black hole only creates a gravity well because it creates such a strong vortex in the medium of spacetime. This may already be the common belief of black holes, but I always thought that a black hole was just a massive point in space that sucked stuff straight into it and matter falling into it followed the path of a vortex. Could it be that the gravity well surrounding a singularity is CAUSED by the vortex action around it?