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Graduate Can We Create Artificial Black Holes? | About Blackholes
hi, In principle you can but practically you can not , because : 1. It is not the density which is important for a black hole, but it is the mass. You need a lot of mass. 2. Roughly the size of a black hole is given by GM /c2, for the mass of sun I think is is about 3 km. 3. For...- Jayantiprasad
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Graduate Space-time and the speed of light
hi, I am again reading Minkowski's 1908 paper(space and time), very soon I will put key points. Let us look at the few lines "Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality"...- Jayantiprasad
- Post #10
- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Large scale structure formation and nonlinearity onset
hi, 1. There is something which is called primordial power spectrum which plays an important role in deciding which scale (large/small) will become nonlinear first. In general, power spectrum is taken to be a power law (P(k) = k^n, -3<n<1,due to practical considerations). 2. If the...- Jayantiprasad
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Graduate Space-time and the speed of light
Dear Garth, I am thankful for your explanation. Few days back I asked same question to David Deutsch, let me put his views here > Q. In the special theory of relativity, time is > identified as a fourth dimension of space-time with > involving light there. I do not know why space and >...- Jayantiprasad
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Space-time and the speed of light
hi, In special theory of relativity time is considered as a fourth dimension of space-time, using speed of light.I am worried, why speed of light should be involved in a theory of space-time ? Space and time must exist in the absence of light also. So do not we need a theory of space-time in...- Jayantiprasad
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity