[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Bob Lentil
Shrunk and gotten heavier, actually.

er...yeah. That's what I meant. er...the observer got bigger ... OOH! LOOK! ELVIS!

Here's a website that gives a simple glossy explanation: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/961102.html

Interesting site. See my statement about GSFC.GOV from earlier.

So, what they're saying is that it might have mass, but if it does, then it's less than 4 x 10e-48 grams. In other words, they're not sure. This is a valid answer.

***Bob Lentil boldly predicts that Roger's next question will be, "How does gravity affect space-time?"***

er, no. I don't think so. I was digging around and found discussion about space-time and how, once you got inside the event horizon of a black hole, you can no more avoid the singularity than you can avoid next tuesday.

This statement, in spite of the supporting evidence, caused smoke to pour out of my Oulette-Pacquard 9905 Bullshit Meter with the Physics/Astronomy attachments, and those are hard to replace. So I think that I'll be avoiding the gravity and space-time discussions for the time being. I've just gotten to the point where I might be willing to concede that there might be some validity (albeit very small) that the speed of light is inviolate. I always want to tack on "with what we know of physics today" to the end of it. I don't want to start getting into space-time and how gravity does strange things with it, etc. etc.

I'll watch if someone else wants to ask it, though.

Roger -Dot- Lee, sitting in a corner, rocking and sucking his thumb