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From: Warp
Date: 3 Jan 2008 01:24:24
Message: <477c7f97@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> Yeah. I'm just not sure the math works the same when you consider the 
> >> whole universe to be the black hole.
> > 
> >   Why not?

> Because the question of where the event horizon is, or where the 
> singularity is, doesn't make sense.

  Of course it makes sense. Ever heard of this thing called center of mass?

> >> If it were true, how could you 
> >> measure the "center" of the black hole?
> > 
> >   It's where the singularity is. A black hole always has a singularity
> > (if GR is right, that is).

> Only if it's not rotating.

  If I'm not mistaken, in a rotating black hole the singularity is a ring
(or, more precisely, a torus with minor radius 0). Still a singularity.

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                                                          - Warp


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