[Buddha-l] ?????

[jkirk]

So why did the cars in the parking lot disappear??? or was that a
joke? 

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Breedon
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] ?????

Black holes are considered to be as impermanent as anything else
in the universe, if indeed it is true that they eventually decay
due to Hawking radiation.

Due to the time dilation of general relativity, from an outside
observer's perspective, an object would take forever to fall into
a black hole (it eventually would sort of disappear from view).
If an observer on the object itself could somehow stay intact, it
would not know when it passed the event horizon, but looking
backwards everything would dramatically speed up.

Please observe this simultaneous recording from two of our web
cameras on the CMS Experiment from the 10 Sept. startup of the
Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where obviously everything I have
written above is
violated:
  http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

One of those cars was mine...

Richard Breedon
Research Physicist, CMS Collaboration, CERN University of
California, Davis