From: Chris Hibbert (cth@pancrit.org)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 20:06:53 MDT
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
> [a thunderbolt singularity is] a consistent GR solution for an
> evaporating black hole which exposes the naked singularity, which
> then propagates and annihilates the entire future light cone of that
> event.
>
> Here's a paper by Stephen Hawking and J.M. Stewart:
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9207105
Yow! That's really nasty, either as a weapon or as a bug!. The only
thing you can do is run away at the speed of light with everything you
ever want to be in contact with. (Anything you don't take with you
will either be swallowed up itself, or recede on a different vector so
you'll never be able to contact it.
We should try to make it unlikely in this universe if we have any
choice in the matter.
Chris
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Chris Hibbert
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