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- From: mcirvin@scws1.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: Graviton beams?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.171451.17472@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:14:50 GMT
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- In article <xeno.721775265@pv0558.vincent.iastate.edu> xeno@iastate.edu (Gary L Snethen) writes:
- >
- >If time is symmetric, and gravity is time-symmetric, either the event horizon
- >of a black hole cannot contain matter OR objects will never reach the event
- >horizon whether falling/accelerating towards, or whatever.
- >
- >Simply shown: When reversing directions in time, your final velocity becomes
- >your initial velocity in the opposite direction. If you fall towards a black
- >hole, you will gain velocity. If you then pass through the event horizon,
- >you will be traveling very fast. If suddenly we reversed time (remember our
- >argument is based on the symmetry of gravity with respect to time), then we
- >would have a very very high initial velocity which would somehow be enough to
- >propel us through the event horizon and back out into space...
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- Yes. And this presents no problems, since in the time-reversed situation
- the black hole is no longer a black hole, but a white hole.
- --
- Matt McIrvin
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