Darby
Epochal Historian
Skepti,
I don't quite know how to receive your last post - the part that responded to my reply to Einstein.
Just to clarify, "the judge ruled, the jury brought in a verdict and the fat lady sang her song on that issue just after the turn of the millennium" was in reference to the fact that the vast majority of posters here and elsewhere as having long ago accepted that he was making predictions about the future.
The jury has certainly brought in a verdict on the outcome of his predictions as far as I'm concerned. He's missed on every prediction that wasn't a vague, slick answer or cute quip response to someone's question or comment.
The time travel part of the story was over as soon as he disclosed that the total mass of the gadget, including the two black holes, was 500 lbs (225 kg). There ain't no way, no how, now or any time in the future, that a black hole with a mass of ~100 kg will generate a wormhole that can "suck" in a Chevy pick-up, intact along with rider, and deposit it intact somewhere else. The event horizon of such a BH is many, many orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest possible sub-atomic particle.
The entire planet Earth, if collapsed into a black hole, would have an event horizon radius of ~4.5 mm - about the same radius as your little finger. A Chevy pick-up wouldn't survive intact entering a wormhole created by that mass.
Titor's BH's would have event horizon radii of ~1.5*10^-29 meters. If a proton actually had a classical radius it would be something on the order of 10^-15 meters.
This is based on the static limit BH solution. HIs spinning charged BH's would have a very slightly larger event horizon radius.
Is there anything that we can compare that has a size difference on the order of magnitude above? Well, sort of - though its not even close.
Our Local Group of Galaxies (Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum and six other galaxies) has a diameter of about 6 million light years. The Universe has a diameter of about 35 billion light years.
If you plug & chug the numbers you come up with:
Local Group = 6 * 10^19 kilometers
The Universe = 3.3 * 10^23 kilometers
If Titor's event horizons were the size of the Local Group and a proton maintained the same relative size, the diameter of the proton would be larger than the entire universe - not 6 thousands times larger than the event horizon (as the Local Group is as compared to the Universe) but 100 trillion times bigger. (That's why I said that there was a "sort of" good comparitor. I couldn't think of anything larger than the entire universe to compare it to.
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This is a part of Titor's Silly Science.
I don't quite know how to receive your last post - the part that responded to my reply to Einstein.
Just to clarify, "the judge ruled, the jury brought in a verdict and the fat lady sang her song on that issue just after the turn of the millennium" was in reference to the fact that the vast majority of posters here and elsewhere as having long ago accepted that he was making predictions about the future.
The jury has certainly brought in a verdict on the outcome of his predictions as far as I'm concerned. He's missed on every prediction that wasn't a vague, slick answer or cute quip response to someone's question or comment.
The time travel part of the story was over as soon as he disclosed that the total mass of the gadget, including the two black holes, was 500 lbs (225 kg). There ain't no way, no how, now or any time in the future, that a black hole with a mass of ~100 kg will generate a wormhole that can "suck" in a Chevy pick-up, intact along with rider, and deposit it intact somewhere else. The event horizon of such a BH is many, many orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest possible sub-atomic particle.
The entire planet Earth, if collapsed into a black hole, would have an event horizon radius of ~4.5 mm - about the same radius as your little finger. A Chevy pick-up wouldn't survive intact entering a wormhole created by that mass.
Titor's BH's would have event horizon radii of ~1.5*10^-29 meters. If a proton actually had a classical radius it would be something on the order of 10^-15 meters.
This is based on the static limit BH solution. HIs spinning charged BH's would have a very slightly larger event horizon radius.
Is there anything that we can compare that has a size difference on the order of magnitude above? Well, sort of - though its not even close.
Our Local Group of Galaxies (Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum and six other galaxies) has a diameter of about 6 million light years. The Universe has a diameter of about 35 billion light years.
If you plug & chug the numbers you come up with:
Local Group = 6 * 10^19 kilometers
The Universe = 3.3 * 10^23 kilometers
If Titor's event horizons were the size of the Local Group and a proton maintained the same relative size, the diameter of the proton would be larger than the entire universe - not 6 thousands times larger than the event horizon (as the Local Group is as compared to the Universe) but 100 trillion times bigger. (That's why I said that there was a "sort of" good comparitor. I couldn't think of anything larger than the entire universe to compare it to.
This is a part of Titor's Silly Science.