Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Naked Singularity

What happens when a measure (space time curvature as per general gravity theory or density of matter) of gravitational force becomes infinite?

Then we call it gravitational singularity. The best example to understand this (theory) is to consider a black hole. What is believed is, at the center of a black hole, the density is infinite. This is coz the mass is compressed to zero volume. So, this situation is a singularity. But we cant see any such thing since black holes wont allow even the light to escape. So, we can’t ‘see’ any such thing.

We have another theory. Here the singularity can be observed. I think this theory came into existence from a thought ‘can we see the collapse of an object to infinite density?’ . If somebody says NO with solid proof, then this theory will not exist. Since it’s not proved that way, the theory exists and such (observable) singularity is called Naked Singularity!

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