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- From: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Two event horizons of black holes.
- Date: 31 Aug 1992 18:08:09 -0700
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- punisher@iastate.edu (Frank Castiglione) writes:
-
- >Over the summer, my girlfriend had told me that there are two event
- >horizons associated with a black hole. She also hinted about "traveling"
- >to other universes.
-
- A black hole created by collapse of a star has just one event horizon.
- On the other hand, a black hole which existed since the beginning of time
- could theoretically have multiple event horizons. A particle falling into
- either event horizon would be trapped in the hole, unable to ever escape.
- If you could imagine, though, breaking the rules and going faster than
- the speed of light, you could go in one horizon and out the other. Such
- a thing is called a wormhole. There is nothing in General Relativity
- which says where the other horizon might be. Traveling through the
- wormhole might put you far away in space or in time (future or past).
- It might even put you into an otherwise disjoint piece of the universe
- (which you might like to call "another universe"). Now there are some
- hints that it might be possible to construct a wormhole which you could
- traverse without exceeding the speed of light (though tidal forces would
- likely kill you anyway). On the other hand, there are hints that such a
- thing might be impossible. This is an active area of research.
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