Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) writes:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:21:53 +0000, Brett wrote:
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I am on the black holes don't exist list, at smaller than at the
center of a galaxy.
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You hear physicists talk of microscopic black holes, but the
force that keeps atoms apart is so much more powerful than
gravity that such talk is just fools playing with math they don't
understand.

Fools like Lev Landau, J Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Chase Tolman,
George Volkoff, Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar, Richard Feynman,
Stephen Hawking (and many others whose names I don't know)?

Neutron stars are are collapsed forms of matter where gravity is
stronger than the electro-magnetic fields holding the electrons
away from each other and the protons.

Not exactly.  Electrons and protons attract each other.  The gravity
is strong enough to get an electron and a proton close enough to each
other so they can combine and form a neutron.  My model for this
recombination is as follows:  a proton is two up quarks and a down
quark;  take an up quark (charge +2/3) and an electron (charge -1),
and maybe a neutrino, turn them all into energy and then turn the
energy back into a down quark (charge -1/3);  so we have taken two up
quarks and a down quark (a proton) and an electron, and gotten out two
down quarks and an up quark (a neutron).  Keep doing that until all
the electrons and protons are used up.  Result:  a neutron star,
consisting almost entirely of neutrons, and almost no protons or
electrons.

It is possible that there is some kind of (as yet non-understood)
force that prevent a black holes complete collapse into a
point--erasing all visible aspects other than mass, charge, and
spin.
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It is just that our understanding of physics does not include such
a force.

Somewhere inside the event horizon of a black hole there is a
discontinuity in space-time.  It isn't clear what distance even
means in the vicinity of such a discontinuity.

The "size" of a black hole might be identified as the radius of
the event horizon, since there is no way of looking inside the
event horizon.  The radius of a black hole's event horizon is an
increasing function of the mass of the black hole.  (My memory
tells me that the radius is a linear function of the mass, but
that should not be taken as reliable.)  Either the Earth or the
Sun would have (if it were a black hole) an event horizon radius
of more than one millimeter, but that statement too is a product
of my not-always-reliable memory.

Finally note:  An electron can be modeled in QCD as if it were a
black hole with the mass, charge, and spin of an electron. ...

Electrons are color neutral.  As far as QCD is concerned (since
QCD is only about the strong force, i.e. the color field),
electrons are invisible.  (Disclaimer: to the best of my
understanding; I am not a physicist.)