Singularity
Nov. 27th, 2011 01:39 pmThe book I finished today: Singularity, by William Sleator.
If you discovered an event horizon in your playhouse, would you:
(a) Run like crazy
(b) Die of extreme gravitation long before you even knew what was going on
( c) Have an adventure centered around the time dilation effect that would "obviously" arise from the proximity of the event horizon due to relativistic effects
( The right answer, and Sleator's set of wrong ones )
If you discovered an event horizon in your playhouse, would you:
(a) Run like crazy
(b) Die of extreme gravitation long before you even knew what was going on
( c) Have an adventure centered around the time dilation effect that would "obviously" arise from the proximity of the event horizon due to relativistic effects
( The right answer, and Sleator's set of wrong ones )