Snowing Light

[Popcorn Sutton]

I had an idea yesterday about why light doesn't escape a black hole, and it came to me that maybe it's freezing and turning into a light version of snow.

 

A possible conclusion from this idea is that light may slow down during this process.

[swansont]

Any evidence at all that this is possible, or model of why light would act this way?

[Popcorn Sutton]

The only evidence to support it that I know of is that the radiation that occurs near the black hole has been measured to be one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. If we look at the light coming from behind it, there may be a noticeable shift in the color, which would have indications.

 

Unless it causes a snow ball effect, which would account for a good portion of the matter in the galaxy.

Edited January 15, 2014 by Popcorn Sutton

[Bignose]

that the radiation that occurs near the black hole has been measured

measured? really? citation please.

[Popcorn Sutton]

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971111e.html

It is Nasa's website but all I did was google it.

[Bignose]

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971111e.html

It is Nasa's website but all I did was google it.

NASA's page there should be clearer, that is a prediction, not a measurement. A prediction, by the way, that depends explicitly on the mass of the black hole.

 

That said, you used the word measurement, implying an experiment has been performed. That page did not use the word measurement, and unless you want to claim that you have actually measured it, neither should you.

[swansont]

Regardless of whether it's been measured or not, the temperature of radiation only has implications as to the wavelength range in the blackbody spectrum. It means the photons have low energy (long wavelength) and the peak will have a certain width.

 

IOW this is based on a gross misunderstanding of physics. There's no model, no evidence, so it doesn't fulfill the requirements of speculations.