Re: wormholes
michael k teehan (miketeehan@worldnet.att.net)
Sun, 7 Dec 1997 07:48:12 -0500
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> From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: wormholes
> Date: Sunday, December 07, 1997 12:00 PM
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> Keith Elis <hagbard@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> > But how can we tell if a mathematical point is rotating or not?
>
> As Lee Daniel Crocker pointed out, black holes are not points. They
> are a pattern of spacetime, and rotates in all physically reasonable
> models. A simple way of testing if a black hole rotates (and how fast)
> is to drop a small object from towards it. If the object begins to
> deviate from a straight fall, then the hole rotates and the deviation
> and direction of deviation can be used to calculate the angular
> momentum.
>
> I think there are some popular explanations of this in Pickover's
> _Black Holes: A Travellers Guide_. There is also (of course) a more
> detailled treatment in Misner, Thorne, Wheeler's _Gravity_.
>
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