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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

New Scientist Premium- Quantum foam blows away naked singularity - News: "A theory called loop quantum gravity can explain the final moments of a star collapsing into a point, and reveals a distinct signal to watch for
NAKED singularities and cosmic censorship may sound like lurid terms from the tabloids, but in fact these phrases lie at the heart of a troubling question for modern cosmology: what happens when our known laws of space and time break down, as happens in the final moments of a star collapsing to a point under its own gravity? "

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It never happens!

2:53 PM

 

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