Recent content by soulmartyr

Wouldn't the firewall incinerate you long before the tidal force would pull you apart. What about considering this new idea of an apparent horizon, that is chaotic and fluctuating like a storm, that physicist like Hawking and Susskind are favoring now, since they believe Hawking radiation would...

I hope we can use space.com, I think I found what ur looking for on it. http://www.space.com/5081-real-death-star-strike-earth.html Talks about a pair of stars one named Wolf-Rayet in the constellation Sagittarius. Wolf-Rayet is theorized to be in the last known stable phase before supernova...

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0108supernova.html scientists at NASA say 26 lightyears away to cause significant damage to our ozone. The closest star from Earth to exceed the Chandrasekhar limit is Spica 260 light years away.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3608 Two colliding disk galaxies, seems to be the speculation.

For a star to explode it has to be at least 3.5 solar masses (size of our sun) Betelgeuse I think is a good example http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=560 Although Astronomers can't predict exactly when it will happen, they believe Betelgeuse is nearing the end of its...

You might like the book "Black holes and Time Warps" by Kip S Thorne It is not about the math, and paints a very beautiful image of the way black holes might look and behave. First non-fiction book I was completely sucked into, no pun intended :D

awesome thanks again

I did mean cube root of X ty and sorry for the confusion your comparison was very helpful ty Where do I learn how to make the rest of the symbols, besides the 'Quick symbols' given

The problem shows two graphs, the first of which is just f(x)=3√x (square root of x cubed -not sure how to make it look like that-) and it wants me to give a function for the graph on the right. The second graph is flipped, vertically shifted 1 up f(x)+ 1 and horizontally shifted 2 right...

>.< opps thx

The red giants ULAS J0744+25 and ULAS J0015+01 are an interesting discovery in my opinion. The Milky way's main disk span is only about 100,000 light years across, with a central bulge about 25,000 light years in diameter. John Bochanski and his team know these newly found stars are part of the...

thanks mfb found Hawking answering questions about the information paradox at Cambridge :D Susskind is there too. http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/fuzzorfire_m13/hawking/rm/flashtv.html

I found where mass has not been considered absolutely constant, or unchangeable since 1903. My previous idea was that conservation of mass and energy was one in the same but I see why it's not, thanks mfb and chronos. The paper Matterwave talked about interests me if anyone knows more about...

I'm glad to hear he conceded to the opposite of what I thought but your answer leads me to other questions, so maybe you could straiten me out some more. Do you know if Hawking still believes black holes will eventually shrink and explode? Again to the best of my understanding...

With this post I am hoping someone would be kind enough to lead me in the right direction. I am a layman who knows little about the actual math behind physics, nonetheless I have developed an interest in it and wish to expand my knowledge base. First question I have is if someone could...