Thread: What is the difference between an event horizon and a singularity?
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Old 29-June-2008, 09:29 PM
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Agreed! Just wanted to make sure i was looking at it correctly. Now wouldnt that mean that the EH is the singularity as viewed by us? ... let me fill in that jump of logic that i just made.

If time stopped ... then for the SOL to remain constant space must also be infinitely compressed basically to 0 thickness ... that means that a BH has 0 volume relative to us. In a previous post on this thread I mentioned that I believe a BH to be 2d basically a circle that is perpendicular to any and all lines of site it also seems to not have any time thus it is 2d ... Does this seem reasonable?
I don't follow you. What are you calling "black hole"?

A black hole is composed of several parts. The singularity is one of them, and the event horizon is another. The singularity has zero width (at least in the classical models currently available), the event horizon is a spherical surface with a nonzero radius. You seem to be speaking as though the two were the same. See the diagram here.

Does this clarify things for you?
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