Re: SCI: existance -vs- non-existance -Reply

Douglas Whitworth (DouglasW@durban.gov.za)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 07:44:32 +0200


Keith Ellis wrote
>physicists
>seem to think that that this singularity may be ring-shaped. If so, this
>would mean
>that one could follow the axis of rotation into the very center,
>supposedly "passing
>through" the singularity (which if I am not mistaken would have the
>properties of a
>wormhole/gravity well).
Is this concept the same as the one used in " Contact" whereby Jodie
Foster ( can't remember her character's name) is sucked through the
wormhole when her " capsule" is launched by the Vagan designed .. er..
Artificial Singularity ?