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- From: sstrazdu@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Strazdus)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
- Subject: Re: Black hole insights
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:18:59 GMT
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- In sci.physics mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
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- %I think that's the problem-- the infinite-Schwarzschild-t effect applies
- %to a nonevaporating Schwarzschild hole. Wald's GR textbook has the
- %following conformal diagram which he claims applies to an evaporating
- %black hole:
- % /| |\
- % / | | \
- % /\ | | /\
- % / \|_____|/ \
- % / \ / \ <---------future infinity
- % / \ / \
- % / \ /<------------ event horizon
- % < X >
- % \ / \ /
- % \ / \ / / \ X lightlike lines
- % \ / \ / _____ spacelike singularity
- % \ / \ / <-- past infinity
- % \/_________\/
- %
- %(I know someone in alt.fan.warlord is going to call this the worst ascii
- %map of Australia ever.)
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- That has to be the worst ascii diagram of the millenium falcon ever.
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