[Buddha-l] ?????

[Richard Breedon]

Black holes are considered to be as impermanent as anything else in  
the universe, if indeed it is true that they eventually decay due to  
Hawking radiation.

Due to the time dilation of general relativity, from an outside  
observer's perspective, an object would take forever to fall into a  
black hole (it eventually would sort of disappear from view). If an  
observer on the object itself could somehow stay intact, it would not  
know when it passed the event horizon, but looking backwards  
everything would dramatically speed up.

Please observe this simultaneous recording from two of our web cameras  
on the CMS Experiment from the 10 Sept. startup of the Large Hadron  
Collider at CERN, where obviously everything I have written above is  
violated:
  http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

One of those cars was mine...

Richard Breedon
Research Physicist, CMS Collaboration, CERN
University of California, Davis

On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Jim Peavler wrote:

>> But doesn't a black hole, to be properly so, have to suck in all
>> directions at
>> once?  Then there can be no down, since everywhere is up,  and event
>> horizon
>> is thus relative to the position of the beholder. (Who will probably
>> not have
>> much of a life for long.)  Thus,  all things are impermanent.
>
> Perhaps the lack of anything is permanent.
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