From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Sep 15 1997 - 01:28:35 MDT
I posted my own visualization of spacetime. My objection to yours was that it
sounded sort of like this:
"Imagine a 2-D world with a large hole in the center. Any flatlander trying
to cross the 'hole' gets squeezed into the center."
I.e., a spatial geometry.
I was particularly worried because of the way Aegis responded; it sounded like
that's what she had been visualizing.
Anyway, we both know it's spacetime.
Sometime I'll have to post a wonderful description of what it would look like
to fall into a black hole; it's from one of my earliest physics books,
"Frontiers of Modern Physics: New Perspectives on Cosmology, Relativity, Black
Holes and Extraterrestrial Intelligence." (Much smaller than it sounds.) I
think I was only nine or so at the time, so the only part I really got were
the vivid descriptions of the black hole and the odd behaviors around the
event horizon.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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