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04-24-2002, 10:16 AM
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The cosmos doesn't care whether you're gravitationally attracted to the earth either, but that doesn't mean that Newton's laws will be violated and you'll float off into space. Just because it's called cosmic censorship doesn't mean the cosmos is making some conscious decision to hide singularities... it's just a funny name. Physicists have a dry sense of humor.
"The Cosmic Censorship Conjecture proposes that in the context of the theory of general relativity, in a spacetime where the total energy density is positive, pathologies such as spacetime singularities and breakdowns in causality and predictability are always hidden behind the event horizons of black holes." (from <a href="http://superstringtheory.com/blackh/blackh2a.html)" target="_blank">http://superstringtheory.com/blackh/blackh2a.html)</a> |
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04-24-2002, 10:45 AM
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Tough crowd. Why did the young earth creationist cross the road?
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