Please Fasten Your Hypothetical Seatbelts, Black Hole Gravity Is About To Get Conjecturally Bumpy
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
If you’re flying in the vicinity of a black hole, seatbelts and a bumpy ride are really the least of your concerns, but we are in the world of the hypothetical, and the accepted wisdom among gravitational thinkers has been that spacetime cannot become turbulent. An idea by the wizards at the Perimeter Institute is that such accepted hypothetical wisdom might be wrong. The researchers followed this line of thought: Gravity might be able to behave as a fluid. One of the characteristic behaviors of fluids is turbulence – under certain conditions, fkuids don’t move smoothly, they eddy and swirl. Presto, let's put something on arXiv. read more