by Dinosaur » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:44 pm
Thanks to everyone who attempted to answer my question "How fast does a black hole collapse?” I have been otherwise occupied for the past couple of years, and would like now to re-open the debate. As I mentioned in my initial question, my maths are not up to scratch, so I have been taking some online maths course through Stanford University, still a ways to go though. So let me be a bit more explicit in my request, let’s go back to the Big Bang, within an impossible to imagine small unit of time all matter came into existence and inflated! Now what is to stop, in theory, the reverse happening inside a black hole, all the matter that makes up the original star disappears from the universe in an impossible small unit of time? (I know all of this happens inside the event horizon, so we can never see the result, but one can always do thought experiments.) Now the matter disappears but the gravitational distortion remains and Albert did say gravity and acceleration were equivalent so... the event horizon seems to persist for us on the outside because time ceases to exist on the inside, so I guess what I’m asking is can the collapse exceed the velocity of light?
Thanks to everyone who attempted to answer my question "How fast does a black hole collapse?” I have been otherwise occupied for the past couple of years, and would like now to re-open the debate. As I mentioned in my initial question, my maths are not up to scratch, so I have been taking some online maths course through Stanford University, still a ways to go though. So let me be a bit more explicit in my request, let’s go back to the Big Bang, within an impossible to imagine small unit of time all matter came into existence and inflated! Now what is to stop, in theory, the reverse happening inside a black hole, all the matter that makes up the original star disappears from the universe in an impossible small unit of time? (I know all of this happens inside the event horizon, so we can never see the result, but one can always do thought experiments.) Now the matter disappears but the gravitational distortion remains and Albert did say gravity and acceleration were equivalent so... the event horizon seems to persist for us on the outside because time ceases to exist on the inside, so I guess what I’m asking is can the collapse exceed the velocity of light?