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At what point does a speeding object become a singularity?

There was another question posted but the guy (Bango Skank, apparently a Stephen King fan) got a lot of the assumptions wrong. I have the following reasoning: E-mc^2. As an object approaches the speed of light it takes more energy to move it. Since energy = mass it would imply that mass would exert a higher gravitational pull. At some point the objects gravity would be so great that it would become a singularity (this is an assumption) at which point it would suck more mass to itself and slow down (again an assumption).

Am I right in these assumption? and if so that sort of blows away the whole idea of reaching the speed of light simply because you would be a singularity well before that. Although it does open up all kinds of thoughts on wormholes.

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  • Brian
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    No. It will not attain singularity status unless it reached the speed of light. Since it can not attain the speed, it can not happen.

    E = mC*2 doesnt say that mass is energy. It says that there is an energy equivalent to mass if the mass were compleletly converted to energy. Also, the equation you wrote only pertains to rest mass (Not accleration/moving). There is another term which takes into account the mass that actually increases (intertial mass) with velocity.

  • 1 decade ago

    "Since energy = mass it would imply that mass would exert a higher gravitational pull."

    Incorrect, and this is why the entire language of "relativistic mass" should be discarded. The modern terminology is that E = mc^2 is true only at rest, and the "mass" is what used to be called the rest mass. The gravitational mass does not depend on speed.

    Here's more on the subject.

    http://www.corepower.com:8080/~relfaq/black_fast.h...

  • erdmun
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    You are just a little harassed. First of all, the wavelength of the electro-magnetic radiation does not impact the behaviour with regards to black holes. Radio and gamma photons are each trapped within the identical method. Second, the small dense mass turns into a black gap on the factor in which it turns into a singularity. So any singularity traps photons.

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