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Oh, so I was thinking last night... | by Llyr | 2003-07-10 07:50:34 |
| In this setup - try making the two endpoints of |
by LurkerMo |
2003-07-10 09:29:15 |
the rod small black holes. Then the force of gravity that they exert on each other would actually be strong enough that they could spin around a common center of gravity, at close to c.
Here is where your mathematics skills come in. If each black hole is about the size of ten suns (take Sol, for instance), at what distance from each other would they move at c? How many RPM would that be?
Does this explain quasars and pulsars? If it does, then you already have an idea of what your gedankenexperiment would look like in the real world.
Oh, one more thing. Would this distance from each other be greater or less than the event horizon? As in, would the event horizons of the two black holes touch? What if the holes were smaller, would this still be true? |
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Hmm... | by Llyr | 2003-07-10 09:40:17 |
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