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Old 11-02-10, 12:27 PM   #18
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Default Re: Horizon-To infinty and beyond

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But how could it al go to nothing? As in no energy as it can neither be created or destroyed.
Quantum vacuum fluctuations violate conservation of energy, see Hawking radiation for an observed example

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Also we don't understand what balck holes are either...
We know exactly what black holes are, we just don't have mathematics that can describe the physical situation at the singularity where the density tends towards infinity

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Also if the speed of light isn't constant...
The speed of light in a vacuum is constant, not only that, it's constant for all observers in different inertial frames of reference, that's one of the basic tenets of relativity and is one of the biggest scientific realisations of all time
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