Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00197)

Thursday, March 10, 2005, 8:06:40 PM, stevestubbs wrote:

> If space vanishes at the Schwarzschild radius, then how is it that
> the mass of the neutron star can be inside it. How is it meaningful
> to say that there is an "inside" if there is no space? I think I 
> know the answer

Could you please share it with us?

I suppose "where" is always within space, hence space cannot be absent
"somewhere" and, likewise, time cannot emerge or disappear "then".

BTW, I wouldn't treat time as a dimension similar to one of the three
spacial ones, at least because any sequence of events (which is the
physical basis of the "time" concept) does not exist as a whole: the
past is not anymore, the future is not yet, there is only the ever
changing now. And a set of spacial points, being the physical basis of
"length", "width" and "breadth", does exist in its entirety.


> Epimenides of Crete became famous for the statement "All Cretans are
> liars," which is a paradoxical statement because the person who 
> originated it (Epimenides) was a Cretan. I think a more elegant 
> statement of the same paradox is the modern form "This statement is 
> not true."

This is actually a circular statement which inverts itself when
evaluated hence necessitating another evaluation, which again inverts
the statement and so on, thus leading to an endless circle. So the
answer depends on the moment when you tire yourself down and decide to
stop...


Best regards,
Vladimir