Simulation of Earth as a Black Hole
This simulation was inspired from Werner Benger's simulation of Earth as a black hole. The reason for using Earth in this example is to provide a familiar reference point to help you perceive the distortion. The animation shows the mass steadily increasing while everything else is kept stationary, notice the Einstein ring in the stars.
References:
http://www.photon.at/~werner/black-earth/index.en.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
Animation by Paul Nylander
I really want to read Hawkings "A Brief History of Time," but apparently, he's changed his position on how a black hole behaves. Now I have to wait for another book. Dammit. Still might read it. And I wish the states and bbc would SHARE better! There's a lot of good dvd$ with excellent programs from GB...but because of region formatting, bbc does not publish as much for whatever region the states are. I think it's region one.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Hawking said "there are no black holes", was just a misunderstanding...in his new paper he writes about the things that happen at the event horizon, the very edge of a black hole.
ReplyDeleteYes. Apparent horizons. And whatever goes in MAY come out but extremely "scrambled" if intact at all. Sounds like a food processor. ;) or, the answer to teleportation?
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