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Old November 6th 11, 12:48 PM posted to alt.astronomy
Androcles[_65_]
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Default Quantum Singularity


"Painius" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:52:17 -0700 (PDT), "G=EMC^2"
| wrote:
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| How small is the singularity? Its a billion billion time smaller than
| a photon.Its the point where all matter ends up at the center of a
| Black Hole. TreBert
|
| "Small" is a general term, Bert. A singularity is theoretically
| "small" in volume, diameter, area, and these parameters are in fact
| "zero".

Nope, singularities are undefined. Imagine a plane flying straight up.
You cannot determine what it's compass heading is, it doesn't have one.
Any other angle off vertical and it has a compass heading, be it
N, E, S, W or 34.42349292 degrees, but vertical is none of them
or all of them. There is a big difference between undefined and zero.
2/0 is twice as big as 1/0 and undefined.
Consider x+y = 3.
That is insufficient to determine the values of x and y, but with two
equations
x+y = 3
2x + y = 4
it is trivial to compute x = 1, y = 2.
x+y = 3
x +2y = 4
gives x = 2, y = 1.
However, not just any two simultaneous equations give a solution,
x+y = 3
2x + 2y = 6
fails.
This pair of equations is said to be singular.