On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:12:03 +0200, L vRooy wrote:
>
>Jochen wrote in respose to 'essay' by Eric:
>--This was thourough.=20
>
>=2E.. and very readable and informative. I hope there will be a 2nd installm=
>ent!
>
>--My explaination was just a shoot from the hip.
>
>How does the saying goes?: Brevity is the mother of ... distortion(???)-=
> just joking, Jochen- I don't really know the proverb.
I was trying to answer your questions. I'm very interested in physics
and Quantum and relativistic physics specifically.
But as I'm a computer scientist, I'm not handling that all the time ;-)
>
>--But I think with "vortex shape" he meant the standard way to --visualize=
> the space-time distortion by gravitation.
>
>Spot on. The explanation by Eric righted a bit my distorted views. If each=
> galaxy have a black hole at its centre, then the distortion cannot be=
> called a vortex, from just a visual point of view. To be true to my=
> somewhat down to earth views, when typing 'vortex', I was thinking about=
> the 'worm holes' which can take you (or whats left of you after being=
> ripped apart- atoms/quarks/leptons/... whichever is the smaller) to another=
> universe.
Ok, so I got you wrong here.
Jochen
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