Re: Pi day >> Pi for a Black Hole / Singularity

Article View: uk.education.maths

Article #78

Back to uk.education.maths Previous Next

#78

From: antagron Steve Ryder
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00

22 lines
1850 bytes

>Hmmmm, hadn't thought of Pi as dependent on local conditions, but of
>course it's true.
>
>Suppose the one ton weight was a singularity with an mass x and an
>effective diameter of 1 millimetre. This could be easily drawn and
>visualised but how would you work out the radius/circumfrence.
>
>Also, if my memory serves, object travelling at very near "c" will be
>"stretched" along the axis of travel, so the orientation of a circle to
>said axis would presumably affect pi, or maybe not as it would no longer
>be a circle.

Someone pointed out to me that if pi was not equal to 
3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510, then it 
wouldn't be a circle, would it? corect me if I'm wrong...

-- 
             Steve Ryder
         <sryder@jersey.net>
   http://www.jersey.net/~hryder/
	go ahead and remove the "NOSPAM" to email me!

Technical Details

Message-ID: <5i1ieo$kam$1@news.jersey.net>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <8WRuzAAXBILzEwKP@ward-hull.demon.co.uk> <333EFF2A.16D1@mail.zynet.co.uk>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f458d,30fff994c7ddd7d9
X-Google-Attributes: gidf458d,public
X-Google-Thread: f7972,30fff994c7ddd7d9
X-Google-Attributes: gidf7972,public
X-Google-Thread: 1130d6,30fff994c7ddd7d9
X-Google-Attributes: gid1130d6,public
X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,30fff994c7ddd7d9
X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public
X-Google-Thread: 10d67e,30fff994c7ddd7d9
X-Google-Attributes: gid10d67e,public
X-Google-Thread: 1077c2,30fff994c7ddd7d9
X-Google-Attributes: gid1077c2,public
From: antagron@[NOSPAM]rocketmail.com (Steve Ryder)
Subject: Re: Pi day >> Pi for a Black Hole / Singularity
Date: 1997/04/04
Message-ID: <5i1ieo$kam$1@news.jersey.net>
X-Deja-AN: 230530505
References: <8WRuzAAXBILzEwKP@ward-hull.demon.co.uk> <333EFF2A.16D1@mail.zynet.co.uk>
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Newsgroups: uk.education.maths,alt.uu.math.misc,aus.mathematics,can.schoolnet.math.sr,alt.math.recreational,sci.math

Reply to Parent Message