There arnt any black holes like that in the game. The black hole files still exist in the directories but they arnt being used.

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That's sad. What about other "special" suns then? Or do you just get the normal white, yellow, blue, take your pick varieties?

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"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed." - Lt. Cmdr. 'Angel' Devereaux

that far white star in the unknown system with the 2 planets might be destoryable use a sunslayer

There are some other anomalies throughout the game... I dunno why they apparently cut black holes.

$20 add-on pack, anyone?

Sure. Maybe the black hole, more types of random missions, a few new ships/weapons, even another system or two. Be worth it to me. Be nice if they could give us another single-player campaign too.

Yeah..

That would make a good mission!!! jumping into Black Hole Territory - trying to do whatever mission and at the same time trying to navigate/fly against the enormous pull of the black hole




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Black holes aren't really holes and they don't "go" anywhere.

They are former Suns that swelled so large in mass and then collapsed on themselves causing a tremendous amount of gravity.

Imagine taking all the mass of Earth and cramming it into something size of a pencil eraser. The gravity produced by such a collapse is sufficient to trap light or alter the path of light traveling near the rim or "Event Horizon" of the black hole. Only light travels fast enough to pass the rim and escape out the other side (still having been affected, granted). But only if it's near the very edge. If it shoots too far near the center, it gets sucked in just like everything else.

And because of the immense gravity, objects are accelerated to near-light speeds which means their time slows down (because time is relative and the faster you move, the slower time appears to you as compared with people moving slower than you -- Theory of Relativity 101). So if you managed to get trapped into the event of a black hole, you would continue to accelerate until time nearly stopped for you. If, hypothetically, you managed to make it back out, the rest of the universe would be much, much older than you (how old would depend on how far and long you stayed in the event of the black hole).

That's the theory, at least. Relativity has not yet been sufficiently proven, though there is tons of circumstantial evidence to back it up. But already there are many flaws in it as demonstrated by Quantum Mechanics. There is no unified theory that ties together the elements of Relativity and the non-deterministic nature of quantum (sub-atomic) behavior.

Though Nasa was conducting an expiriment where they sent a precisely calibrated clock on the shuttle and left one (with the same precise time as it's sister clock) back here on Earth.

When the Shuttle got back, if Relativity is true, then the clock on the shuttle would be a few nanoseconds (or perhaps even milliseconds) behind the one left here on Earth.

I'm not sure which Shuttle is was on (Endeavor or Columbia), but i haven't heard the results, so I'm afraid it might have been Columbia

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/art/dis ... proach.jpg

So I'm not supposed to see something like that in the game? I was worried that my game was missing something.

That's an interesting read Daz. I am especially curious about the NASA bit. I'd like to find out what the results of that were (If they indeed have any).

Edited by - kak on 09-03-2003 06:04:31

In reply to Daz:

Actually they have already proven the relativity between gravity and time. They compaed time using atomic clocks in orbit (or was it a skyscraper) and in a deep mine shaft; a difference was actually found.

Also recent years of development on superstring field theory (a decendant of kuluza-klein) has point to unification based on extra dimentional geometry... presenting the main theoretical point that light "vibrates" in an extra spacial dimention which causes the wave duality...

On a side note, suns don't swell in mass as they age; their masses decrease. Visible light is unlikely to go pass a black hole and still be seen; as they would red shift outside visible spectrum.

Yes, the Theory of Relativity has been proven (well, parts of it, at least). They've done it in a bunch of different places, skyscrapers, planes, mountains, etc. Don't know if it's been done in orbit yet.

What do you mean time hasn't been tested in orbit?

How do you expect to get GPS coordinates!??

The Navy put atomic clocks in all 24 GPS satellites. They would definitely know that time is minutely slower for the satellites than for clocks on earth.

But, I don't know the sensitivity of those atomic clocks (do they calculate to the femtosecond, or just the nanosecond??)

And because those satellites have built in atomic clocks, with their signals timed exactly with the onboard clock, that's how your GPS receivers set their relatively cheap quartz-crystal clocks.

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