In regards to a black hole and it's singularity,do our laws of physics,break down???

Question

At this level do our laws of physics work???It makes me think that we still have so much to learn,when you think about something that doesn't seem to work right,while all else does........Tom Science

Answer 1

The whole concept of black holes seems to be something beyond what our natural laws of physics can account for.

For instance: they say that NOTHING can be accelerated faster than the speed of light... if that were true, then why is it that light can be pulled into a black hole? And since the force of gravity causes acceleration, then at what speed does the light reach the interior of the black hole? Faster than the speed of light, you would assume.

It's mind boggling.

Answer 2

Any person who has taken an astrophysics class and actually paid attention would have learned that all known laws of physics break down as the point of singularity is reached (inside the event horizon. The answer to your question is : YES, no known laws can account for the facts that we observe. Black holes and singularities (which can be different from black holes) defy our attempts at understanding. There is just too much that we dont know about them yet. Yes, objects with mass CAN go faster than the speed of light. Think im wrong? Look up Cerenkov (Cherenkov) Radiation and Tachyon Radiation.

Answer 3

If you are inside a black hole's event horizon, there is no way you can get out of the black hole, however powerful a rocket you have. The reason you can't just take a rocket engine that will produce more force than the black hole's gravitational force is that, in general relativity, gravity does not affect the trajectories of particles by exerting force, but by altering the metric of space-time. Given a metric and a starting point, you can compute the so-called future light cone of the starting point, which contains all points it is possible to reach from the starting point by any means. If the starting point is inside the event horizon, you will find that the light cone is likewise fully inside the event horizon. So, once you have fallen into the hole there is no way out.

Answer 4

Au contrair (I don't think I spelled that wrong) It seems that in a black hole do all of our laws of physics work together. The chaotic quantom physics (That of the incredibly small) and those of our macro universe (those dealing with the very massive) Only work in harmony inside a black hole, where it is simultaneosly very massive, and very small. It's like taking a star, and squishing it to the size of a proton. And to the guy who answered first, light does not ever go faster than the speed of light, it has no mass so doesn't really count.

Answer 5

To generalize what Stephen Hawking once wrote, if we were to truly know the nature of the universe, we would BE God.

There's just so much that we don't know, it's extremely difficult to know all the forces and things that act upon our universe and our reality. We are like a fish in an aquarium wondering what really is beyond our little glass world and how that world operates with all of its intricacies.....and then there's our ability and capacity to understand those complexities and how they relate to each other. The thing is, we may never know what REALLY is involved in the make-up of these things.

Good day.

Answer 6

They do. People who try to describe what happens "inside" a black hole are generally ignoring the fact that there is no "inside", since the laws of spacetime cease to exist as we know them at the event horizon.

Answer 7

This is the place where the marriage of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, which has yet to occur, would help explain things.