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**CurtisTH** · 07-11-2009, 04:28 AM

Could i take this into the theoretical realm for a moment? If you could somehow generate your own gravitational forces, could you offset the effect of the black holes gravity?

Anything that has mass (inertial or otherwise) generates gravity, so you already do it - it's just that the "amount of gravity" you generate is directly proportional to your mass, hence why your own gravity is barely noticeable compared to the likes of that generated by a planet. However, I assume that you're talking about making extra gravity, like in Star Trek...

suppose you need one hell of an imagination to understand the cosmos

There's a common phrase amongst particle physicists, cosmologists, quantum physicists, etc:

"Sod what it actually means, just do the maths"

A lot of what the modelling generates has no simple or even physical visualisation to it, so it's best not to worry about it, and this is very true for singularities: theoretically modelling them with mathematics is fine but trying to picture what one is like is pointless because there is no physical description for one.

07-11-2009, 04:28 AM	#31
CurtisTH Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 391 Senior Member	Could i take this into the theoretical realm for a moment? If you could somehow generate your own gravitational forces, could you offset the effect of the black holes gravity? Anything that has mass (inertial or otherwise) generates gravity, so you already do it - it's just that the "amount of gravity" you generate is directly proportional to your mass, hence why your own gravity is barely noticeable compared to the likes of that generated by a planet. However, I assume that you're talking about making extra gravity, like in Star Trek... suppose you need one hell of an imagination to understand the cosmos There's a common phrase amongst particle physicists, cosmologists, quantum physicists, etc: "Sod what it actually means, just do the maths" A lot of what the modelling generates has no simple or even physical visualisation to it, so it's best not to worry about it, and this is very true for singularities: theoretically modelling them with mathematics is fine but trying to picture what one is like is pointless because there is no physical description for one.
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