Vorde
Dec4-10, 09:14 PM
I have just finished Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne as part of a high school reading class. Regardless of my personal thoughts of the book, I was captivated by the question, can a naked singularity exist?
I was thinking along the following route (I guess I should mention that I haven't taken any formal quantum physics classes and I might be completely wrong in everything I say):
A Black Hole can be considered a gravitational singularity, and the event horizon the photon horizon, meaning a being who perceived information using a different method that was attracted to the black hole differently might see a different sized event horizon, or possibly none at all. After thinking about it for a little bit, I remembered that everything in the universe has some mass (I deduced this by myself from E=MC2, sorry if i'm wrong here), so the means nothing can ever escape from a gravitational singularity, and therefore, I figured that there could never be a naked singularity.
However, that got me thinking about singularities. From what I understand there are four fundamental forces (or three, I don't really get Electroweak), and gravity is one of them.
My question is; Is it possible to have a singularity that is caused primarily by one of the other fundamental forces, and therefore does not effect photons, which allow us to observe them?
I was thinking along the following route (I guess I should mention that I haven't taken any formal quantum physics classes and I might be completely wrong in everything I say):
A Black Hole can be considered a gravitational singularity, and the event horizon the photon horizon, meaning a being who perceived information using a different method that was attracted to the black hole differently might see a different sized event horizon, or possibly none at all. After thinking about it for a little bit, I remembered that everything in the universe has some mass (I deduced this by myself from E=MC2, sorry if i'm wrong here), so the means nothing can ever escape from a gravitational singularity, and therefore, I figured that there could never be a naked singularity.
However, that got me thinking about singularities. From what I understand there are four fundamental forces (or three, I don't really get Electroweak), and gravity is one of them.
My question is; Is it possible to have a singularity that is caused primarily by one of the other fundamental forces, and therefore does not effect photons, which allow us to observe them?