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I've got a few novice questions, and I'd appreciate answers which are conceptual, rather than equation, based. Thanks in advance. Regarding black holes: 1.) For a rotating black hole, are there two event horizons, one on each 'pole' as it were? If so, is this a function of the rotation...

Thank you, sir, for your patient help. Ted

OK, I think I'm beginning to follow, a little. So is it still accurate to say that "Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared", or is this technically incorrect?

I appreciate your explanations, but on a very basic level, c is just a very large number, and c squared even more so. Forgetting desired units for the moment, this large number is most often used in simple discussions of the power of atomic fusion to explain how a pea-sized amount of...

Thanks for the reply, but to me, your answer just begs the question. And, (big disclosure here), I'm just an interested novice, trying to understand things conceptually, if that's possible. In my college years, I studied Greek at Oxford, and was privileged to play chess once with Paul...

Basic Question: Of the infinite number of other values which could have been the multiplier in E=mc2, it surely cannot be a coincidence that the value of the speed of light squared was the number. So why c? Ted