Recent content by swaroop

I don't think so. Here's a thought experiment to demonstrate why i do. Imagine a mass of 1 kg in empty space at rest wrt you. If you push it, it gains some velocity wrt you. Now, as soon as you stop applying force, it stops accelerating. This is, in essence, inertia. If inertia were thought as a...

jedishrfu, lol.. black>-----<hole Anyway, i know this can never be objectively tested, hence the words theoretically (although, i did allude to my speculation that this could have actually happened to our universe) Simon, thanks, ill read up on it. PS: Do you think the laws of physics inside...

I know this is far from what a strict obeyance to the principle of occoms razor may result in and its probably wrong. is it theoretically possible that as a star contracts to result in a black hole, the contraction does not stop when its just a point hole, but continues, expanding in a negative...

Thanks, I thought this kind of thing only happened in cameras..

Thanks for replying. Here's the pic:

I have a long tube (aout 30 cm) with a convex lens of diameter 7.5 cm on the one end and a small hole of diameter 2 cm on the other. When i shine a light through the hole and let it pass through the lens, i get a flowery pattern on the wall, looked very strange to me. There is a maxima in the...