Harte
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Re: John Titor
6 trillion tons per singularity, if I recall my calculations.
You can find out how to calculate this at the following link:
How big is a black hole?
Titor claimed his singularities were "about the size of an electron."
Considering an electron has no actual size (it's a point particle) one must see what the traditional size is. This is based on how close you can squeeze one electron up next to another.
Google "size of an electron" for this info.
Put that size in to the formula from the previous link, fill in the rest and the answer will be the mass.
As I said, if I remember correctly, it's about 6 trillion tons.
maybe it was 6 trillion pounds.
Either way, not likely to be toted around in a Chevy, wouldn't you agree?
As I said, this is the simple refutation. Others are more complicated.
BTW, there is a lower limit to the size of anything. It's called the 'Planck length." You can find this length online as well and use it to calculate the tiniest possible black hole.
It should be noted that black holes as small as Titor claimed evaporate quickly through Hawking radiation. In fact, the smaller the hole, the faster it evaporates. Also, the smaller the black hole, the more intense the Hawking radiation becomes.
At the size Titor claims, this radiation would instantly turn him and his Chevy to a small mixture of ash and slag, after which there would be no singularities left.
Harte
This is the easiest way of refuting Titor's claim scientifically:Numenorean7 said:
6 trillion tons per singularity, if I recall my calculations.
You can find out how to calculate this at the following link:
How big is a black hole?
Titor claimed his singularities were "about the size of an electron."
Considering an electron has no actual size (it's a point particle) one must see what the traditional size is. This is based on how close you can squeeze one electron up next to another.
Google "size of an electron" for this info.
Put that size in to the formula from the previous link, fill in the rest and the answer will be the mass.
As I said, if I remember correctly, it's about 6 trillion tons.
maybe it was 6 trillion pounds.
Either way, not likely to be toted around in a Chevy, wouldn't you agree?
As I said, this is the simple refutation. Others are more complicated.
BTW, there is a lower limit to the size of anything. It's called the 'Planck length." You can find this length online as well and use it to calculate the tiniest possible black hole.
It should be noted that black holes as small as Titor claimed evaporate quickly through Hawking radiation. In fact, the smaller the hole, the faster it evaporates. Also, the smaller the black hole, the more intense the Hawking radiation becomes.
At the size Titor claims, this radiation would instantly turn him and his Chevy to a small mixture of ash and slag, after which there would be no singularities left.
Harte
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