Yeah... it's when they boost the anti-mass spectrometer 105% for the extra resolution... watch out for that.
Was slightly gutted to wake up this morning. Having broken up with my gf last week, crashed my car this week & seen my bank balence, a black hole would be a very good quick fix!
I hope we aren't going to have to go through all the apocalypse headlines again for that. 'End of the world!!! Again. We got it a bit wrong last time.'
Why would a planet being swallowed up by a black hole result in a galaxy being destroyed? Even if this hypothetical black hole manages to swallow the whole solar system eventually it would still be completely insignificant on a galaxy level. The milky way could well be littered with black holes, they just orbit the supermassive one at the centre of the galaxy just like stars do.
i stand need talk then, im notts and have brought a house in derby
Last edited by j1979; 11-09-2008 at 06:43 PM. Reason: im a moron
Sorry it's a bit late... only woke up alive at 3.30, and only then to go to work...
Wonder if the effects of the LHC made England win last night?
(Thanks Evilmunky)
Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet intakes.
chuckskull (11-09-2008)
I've been in Geneva since the 9th...haha!! Still a live it seems...
I'm no physicist, but I assume the answer to that will be the Special Theory of Relativity.
Light (photons) are generally regarded (though it may be a bit of a simplification) as having no mass. Relativity suggests that mass increases as you approach the speed of light, and that the energy required to approach the speed of light also increases. Clearly, the mass of a sub-atomic particle is pretty tiny, but assuming that the implications of the Special Theory of Relativity are correct, then even that tiny mass is going to require, in effect, infinite energy to reach c. And as we can't supply limitless energy, we can't get even something as small in mass as a neutron to reach c. We can, it seems, get very, very close, though.
And if anyone that actually knows what they're talking about can put it better than that, and they probably can, feel free.
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