Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site prometheus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!prometheus!pmk From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: A Question Regarding Black Holes Message-ID: <163@prometheus.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 02:01:46 EDT Article-I.D.: promethe.163 Posted: Sun Aug 11 02:01:46 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:05:34 EDT References: <482@sri-arpa.ARPA> Organization: Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD Lines: 24 > P.S. I'll believe in black holes .... . . > Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)Is is possible for black holes (or neutron stars) to become "white holes"? My thought was that maybe a mechanism could be found that would allow "black holes" to suddenly start evaporating (disintegrating), thereby transforming themselves into a quasar. Maybe black holes and neutron stars aren't massive enough. Incidentally, Russians refer to black holes as "frozen" stars because as the density and total mass increase time slows down more and more and the star appears to freeze up, including putting out less and less light. I think that process of freezing may actually prevent the final transformation into a black hole, so consequently black holes may well NOT exist. - - NOTE: MAIL PATH MAY DIFFER FROM HEADER - - +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Paul M. Koloc, President: (301) 445-1075 | FUSION | | Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD 20740-0222 | this | | pmk@prometheus.UUCP; ..seismo!prometheus!pmk.UUCP | decade | +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+