It is hard to understand how this infinitely dense singular… - John Moffat

" "
It is hard to understand how this infinitely dense singularity can evaporate into nothing. For matter inside the black hole leak out into the universe requires that it travel faster than the speed of light.

John Moffat

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About John Moffat

John W. Moffat (born 1932) is a Canadian physicist and cosmologist, Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto and adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Waterloo.

Also Known As

Alternative Names: John W. Moffat

All quotes from John Moffat Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like John Moffat:

Arthur Eddington Lawrence M. Krauss Steven Weinberg Stephen Hawking Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

Additional quotes by John Moffat

It may be that ultimately the search for dark matter will turn out to be the most expensive and largest null result experiment since the Michelson-Morely experiment, which failed to detect the ether.

Einstein entertained counterintuitive notions that allowed him to pull physics from the mechanistic, clockwork universe of the eighteenth century up into the twentieth century.

This is an extraordinary time in the history of science, in that we cannot only theorize about the beginning of the universe, but actually study the celestial fossils of how it happened.

It is hard to understand how this infinitely dense singularity can evaporate into nothing. For matter inside the black hole leak out into the univers… - John Moffat

About John Moffat

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by John Moffat

Enhance Your Quote Experience