Or this:
Or this:
You get the picture.
Well from now on, I'm using this:
Yes, it's true. Healy has gotten so massive he creates his own little pocket of warped space. Egad.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Warped Spacetime
So when teaching about Einstein, general relativity, and how extremely massive objects can warp space, we all use the familiar "bowling ball on a rubber sheet" analogy. You know, the one that uses figures like this:
Or this:
Or this:
You get the picture.
Well from now on, I'm using this:
Yes, it's true. Healy has gotten so massive he creates his own little pocket of warped space. Egad.
Or this:Or this:You get the picture.
Well from now on, I'm using this:
Yes, it's true. Healy has gotten so massive he creates his own little pocket of warped space. Egad.
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Healy's own little contribution to science....you can see he is in deep thought.
So..do you see any appreciable bending if Healy is nearly in the line-of-sight to the TV? Just curious.
Pat D.
Nelson's mass renders him in danger of actually becoming a black hole.
And what a warm and comfy little pocket of warped space it is!
A purring black hole.
I thought black holes had no hair, yet that one seems to shed.
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