Recent content by Chimps

The frame of infalling objects must become irrelevant. All infalling objects do so from a finite reference.

There is no violation. Time dilation, as predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, has prevented any such violation from occurring.

Yes, that is the point I was rather clumsily trying to make. I feel that the OP wants a definitive answer which is clearly unrealistic.

Nobody knows where gravity comes from. Unfortunately our understanding of the universe is not at a stage where that question can be answered. We know it exists and we know it can be predicted, but we can't explain the philosophical aspects which your question implies. This is the nature of...

I think this is incorrect. It is the unique nature of the event horizon which prevents otherwise certain annihilation.

It's the event horizon which creates the effect. You won't see it on anything without an event horizon because without it, the pairs will annihilate.

Some people suggest the forces are part of the 'computer program' we live in, but that isn't really science. Nevertheless, there is much circumstantial evidence to suggest that it is indeed the case.

Okay, that makes sense. So, I guess that it would indeed be very luminous if it was coming at high speed. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

Why would a black hole traveling at huge speed through a vacuum have an easily detectable bow shock? Why would it emit a lot of high energy photons? Surely it would be the hardest thing to detect in terms of radiation?

Thanks for the responses. Although, are we sure to have so much warning even if the black hole is traveling at enormous speed? What if the black hole is traveling at close to the speed of light? Maybe it has been slingshotted in a violent cosmic event - how much difference could that make?

I am not convinced by the mathematics of Hawking radiation. I believe it may be flawed.

It could be a lot less depending on how innaccurate our theories are. We don't really know for sure how gravity works on larger scales.

I think that so called goldilocks planet is not very promising. How can they say, for instance, that it is tidally locked and yet a good candidate for life? Nonsense. Any tidally locked planet is a hopeless cause for complex life - the atmosphere would be almost nonexistent.

If a black hole is approaching towards our solar system, at what point could it be detected and is there anything we could do to avoid catastrophe? Would it make more sense to attempt to move the Earth in such a situation?

Why? because you think they are just curled up really small so you can't see them! You like the mathematics. Where is the proof?