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New Theories / The Invisible Universe, the BIG BANG, and the Weakness Of Gravity
« on: 08/02/2008 18:01:32 »BHs have mass so they cannot travel faster than light. Even if they were both travelling toward each other at 0.75C their combined velocity would still not exceed C due to relativistic effects.
So, I ask again, how can 2 BHs colliding cause an explosion? The matter inside them cannot escape no matter how great the collision.
OK so if both BH's are traveling at 75% of C, then a head-on collision of both would be the equivalent of one BH doing 150% the speed of light and hitting a brick wall. Would that not be enough momentum and energy to cause the Bose-Einstein matter to scatter and cause at least some of it to escape? In theory? I have to trust your opinion, while I have just a PBS grasp of physics. And we are just beginning to understand the Bose-Einstein condensates, they act so differently than solids or liquids, like a wave of connected matter, maybe they would explode under such extreme conditions... (I am not talking about antimatter/matter, because there doesn't appear to be enough antimatter to form a BH according to your other post.)