Gave me a good laugh :3 But there's obviously a way around the hairy ball theorem! Get rid of the hair and it's no longer a problem! Duh!
Haha fantastic! Now I need to find a way to use this theorem to come out to my fellow physics students...
Awww. I thought maybe this was about the "No Hair Thereom" that discusses a black hole's inability to produce magnetic fields. I love talking black hole physics!
I ESPECIALLY love BH physics because it's all conceptual (for now). I mean, as of now we don't have a complete understanding of either space or black holes. Since Einstein breaks down in a singularity, relativity isn't complete. The discovery of the Higgs was huge, but we are still so far away. Hawking and Suskind can just sit down and think, and with imagination and math they can explain a region of space that almost doesn't exist in our known universe! Stellar evolution, black holes, everything like that is very fun to think about. Out of everything, the time factot is my favorite. Explaining to friends Suskind's hologram theory and explaining time as seen from different points of reference is really fun for me. ^_^ ---------- Post added 12th Sep 2013 at 11:59 AM ---------- I can't leave out neutron stars either though! Almost forgot about those!
Yeah, it's not for everyone. Pretty amazing stuff if you like it, and the most useless stuff you could ever hear if you don't like it. When I die, I want my body placed in a casket and frozen cryogenically. Then I want to be sent off on a stable vector toward a black hole. I would prefer a Supermassive BH, but stellar would be ok. Then my corpse will drift for a very long time until it arrives at the black hole. The trajectory of my casket will need to take into account the great distance and time till arrival and take the arc into account. I'd become the first human body to be a part of a black hole singularity. Hopefully once I die, I will actually have a spirit and an afterlife. The first thing I'll do is pop on over to Cygnus X-1 and see the binary up close with my own eyes. Then I'd pop over to the Crab nebula and see the winds of the Crab Pulsar. Then a quick visit to Saggitarius A* to see our very own SMBH. I'd also like to go back in time as my spirit self and actually view a QUASAR from just outside its parent galaxy. You can tell I'm passionate about this. :icon_bigg
I swear I'm reading all of this in Brent Spiner's voice. But yeah, I did my second year astrophysics essay on the general relativistic aspect of black holes, and aced it! Fair enough that it has little practical usefulness, but it's still just the most awesome thing ever!
