21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2021-05-26 04:34:11

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THOMAS WRIGHT (1711-1786) would declare himself “an enemy to the taking of any thing for granted, merely because a person of reputed judgment has been heard to say it absolutely is so.” He dared to imagine the solar system in extraordinary ways. https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/02/16/thomas-wright-original-theory/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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SO ENDS this first of a series of papers by Jacob Bekenstein, whose extraordinary work on black hole entropy had an enormous impact on astrophysics. This man used the sheer power of logic, imagination and mathematics to probe the unknowable, for nothing we know can penetrate a black hole and survive. https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
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ASTOUNDING PREDICTIONS. “We have seen how the GSL makes very reasonable (if not astounding) predictions for processes of black-hole formation. This success supports the view that it must be generally valid for such processes.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
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UNPROVEN. “Despite the general agreement that the GSL reflects a fundamental aspect of the quantum theory of gravity, there currently exists no general proof (that is, a proof which is based on the fundamental microscopic laws of quantum gravity) for the validity of this principle.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-05-26 04:30:13

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SEEDING BLACK HOLES. “However, in principle smaller masses can also be induced to collapse. One way to accomplish this" would be to artificially compress the central portion of the system into a "seed" black hole which would then gobble up the rest of the nucleons. The energy expended in "seeding" can be made negligible.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
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