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  Re: A random wondering of my own...  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 23 Jul 2010 20:57:30
Message: <4c4a3a7a@news.povray.org>
On 7/22/2010 12:18 PM, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>>>> Warp wrote:
>>>>>    Matter degenerates under that much gravity. They are not "particles"
>>>>> anymore.
>>>
>>>> Err, what are they, then?
>>>
>>>    How should I know? I'm not an astrophysicist.
>
>> Why do you think they aren't particles, then?
>
>    Because you can't have a huge bunch of particles in a space of zero
> volume. Hence if all the mass is in a singularity, it cannot be in the
> form of particles, but something else completely (basically something
> that cannot be described with current knowledge of physics).
>
>    (Of course I'm assuming here that singularities do exist. It's possible
> that reality is different and they don't.)
>
Special pleading. That is all I have to say on that. If you don't get 
them, you don't have to make up some *unknown*, and *undefined* thing 
for matter to "be" when its in one.

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