Been thinking about black holes (objects so massive that not even light travels fast enough to escape their gravity) and light. Some amazing connections:
Time slows down as one goes faster and faster. If you could go as fast as light (670 million miles per hour), time would go so slowly it would come to a stop.
Time also slows down as gravity increases. So time moves more slowly on earth than it does on the moon where the force of gravity is less. If you got to a place where the gravity was so strong that you’d have to travel at the speed of light just to get away (like near a black hole), time would go so slowly it would come to a stop. So what’s the connection between gravity and speed?
Also, things become more massive (“weigh more”) as they go faster and faster. If something was moving at the speed of light it would be more massive than everything in the entire universe combined. So if you travel fast enough (close to the speed of light), you will become a black hole.
But as you become a black hole, the distance from you at which light cannot escape will be someplace inside you. This doesn’t make any sense. Fortunately, as you travel faster, you also become smaller – so no problem. Isn’t it weird the way everything works out so nicely?
Isn’t God amazing?
Time slows down as one goes faster and faster. If you could go as fast as light (670 million miles per hour), time would go so slowly it would come to a stop.
Time also slows down as gravity increases. So time moves more slowly on earth than it does on the moon where the force of gravity is less. If you got to a place where the gravity was so strong that you’d have to travel at the speed of light just to get away (like near a black hole), time would go so slowly it would come to a stop. So what’s the connection between gravity and speed?
Also, things become more massive (“weigh more”) as they go faster and faster. If something was moving at the speed of light it would be more massive than everything in the entire universe combined. So if you travel fast enough (close to the speed of light), you will become a black hole.
But as you become a black hole, the distance from you at which light cannot escape will be someplace inside you. This doesn’t make any sense. Fortunately, as you travel faster, you also become smaller – so no problem. Isn’t it weird the way everything works out so nicely?
Isn’t God amazing?
How about the fact that c = 1 / sqrt[(epsilon naught)*(mu naught)] ?
ReplyDeleteTranslation: That electricity plus magnetism is light!
Consequence: Every piece of technology in the last century.