Atoms And Singularities

[ClaudeGaiven]

Question: What would it mean if every atom was actually a very small singularity?

[CraigD]

Question: What would it mean if every atom was actually a very small singularity?

I’m guessing you mean black hole – something so massive light can’t escape from it – rather than gravitational singularity, a point where the gravitational force is infinite.

 

A few answers come quickly to mind

• if the inside of an atom, or just the nucleus of an atom, was within a black hole, we wouldn’t be able to get information out of it, so couldn’t discover its internal structure in the ways we have, such as using Deep inelastic scattering.
• since the force is between charged particles is carried by virtual photons, which like observed photons, can’t escape from a black hole, atoms or nuclei inside black holes couldn’t interact electrostatically. Electrons wouldn’t be attracted to nuclei inside black holes, and molecules couldn’t form out of atoms inside black holes. Chemistry wouldn’t work.
• According to the Schwarzschild metric, its mass would have to be much larger than we observe. For a black hole with an event horizon radius of a proton (about 8.5 x 10^-15), its mass would have to be about 6 x 10¹¹ kg, about 100 time the mass of the Great Pyramid. For one the size of a hydrogen atom (about 5 x 10^-11 m), it would be about 3 x 10¹⁶, the mass of a small asteroid.

This makes me pretty sure atoms or atomic nuclei aren’t inside very small black holes.

 

The question reminds me a little of recent theories proposing that quantum entangled particles are connected by wormholes, such as described in this article. This may explain how measuring one entangled particle implies instant communication with the other, even though they may be far from one another – they are actually zero distance apart within their wormhole. It also hints at the cause of gravity, though I don’t understand the idea well enough to understand this part of it.

[current]

Question: What would it mean if every atom was actually a very small singularity?

To add to CraigD response ;

 

This could never happen ; because each atom would never become an atom in the first place .

 

Why ?

 

Because the stability of the atom could never take place , in the first place .

 

Why?

 

Because the proton and the electron could never reach a stable form of an atom .

 

Why?

 

Because the " singularity " would over whelm the Nature of the potential of the atom to form , in the first place .

[sanctus]

Current, you sure? Because if earth became a black hole there would be nno difference for the moon orbiting it (same mass in the center of the moons orbit)