Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by Maursault on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:31PM
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> You can say black holes are holes in spacetime with a big rock at the bottom.
The more I've thought about this, the more it seems wrong. Black holes are not a hole in spacetime like a puncture hole in fabric. There is no missing spacetime like there would be missing fabric. Black holes are more accurately a round 4D valley in spacetime rather than a hole in spacetime.
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:36PM
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>Black holes are not a hole in spacetime like a puncture hole in fabric.
Who said puncture holes? Ground holes also exist you know.
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by Maursault on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:43PM
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All holes are punctures, including ground holes.
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:54PM
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Not really, unless you can find a contrasting definition to one found on WorldReference. Puncture is defined as making a hole in surface (the boundary) rather a volume (the solid). In any case this goes off topic. You've apparently misunderstood what people usually mean with hole. (edit: Or maybe I've. Now I'm confused. Here goes the rest of my day thinking about the meaning of holes.)
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:46PM
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There are no holes that puncture the ground. All holes in the ground are, in your terminology, "valleys".
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by Maursault on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:09PM
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A puncture is a hole, and vice versa. These are synonyms.
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:51PM
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How many holes are there in a coffee mug?
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by Maursault on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:45PM
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Septillions, especially if there's coffee in it.
Re:Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Univ...
by OkayPhysicist on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:45PM
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There kinda is missing space time. Everything inside the event horizon is fundamentally separate from everything outside. It takes an infinite amount of time (from the perspective of an exterior observer) for something to fall into the event horizon, and it is fundamentally impossible for anything inside to get out.
You can say black holes are holes in spacetime with a big rock at the bottom.