many thanks for your responses.
Just one follow up, if c is the escape velocity of the event horizon, doesn't light travel at c, so couldn't light in the black hole escape? I mean I kn ow it can't, but why not?
As a writer, light is as crucial as it is to physicists. But I'm struggling with some conceptual understanding surrounding light. If you could supply any answers to this science layman I would be very grateful.
1) Without light there is no way of observing and measuring. So light is both itself...
it is a paradox and the perennial one from "Up The Line" to "Terminator", "Looper" et al. "Looper" didn't even try and offer an explanation to justify itself.
Anyway, inspired by the paradoxes in "Terminator" I wrote a time travel novel "Time After Time" that has Schrodinger's Cat & The...
Hi there, my name is Marc Nash from London and I write fiction. Why am I here? Because modern physics has all the best metaphors and most interesting paradigms that leaves us writers hanging our heads in shame. I am a lay person in science, having studied physics only to O-Level (in the UK) when...