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Re:Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy... by bollu on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:43PM (#27238154)
Since you answered: do you have a good way to visualize the curvature of spacetime? I really don't understand how to think about light-cones being distorted, because it's the curvature of a lorentzian manifold that stiches together light cones with distortion.
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Re:Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy... by Koshkin on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:26PM (#27240171)
If you can only visualize curvature of a 2D surface (embedded in the 3D space), you have to imagine the space as being 1D. I don't know of any other way.
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