Hawking radiation

...in explaining to an 8 year old:

What is an event horizon ?

It is a boundary in spacetime.
Beyond this boundary you can no longer escape gravitational pull.
It is the boundary to an area in space which is so dense that no light,
matter can escape it's gravitational field.
Beyond the event horizon you are caught in the gravitational field of a black hole, a super dense area in space.
At the event horizon the escape velocity is the speed of light.
All galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centre.

My dinner table discussions with my sons revolved around “would you rather be machine gunned to death or eaten by a shark? Who would win in a fight between Spiderman and Superman? (everyone knows Spiderman of course)” My wife despaired. Black holes didn’t come-up.
 
Spiderman is ghey... Superman will kick his ass.

Wrongo! My youngest son and I have endlessly analysed a ‘Spiderman vs Superman’ confrontation over the dinner table. Maybe it’s a bit too obvious, everyone knows that Spidy would win.

Recipe for Spiderman beating the crap out of Superman

Spiderman has powdered (ground-up) Kryptonite loaded into his web shooters. When Superman approaches, arrogantly assuming that as the ‘man of steel’ he will swiftly dispose of Spiderman, Spiderman entangles him in his ‘webs of death’. When Superman falls to the ground, he also does a Kryptonite-loaded shot into Superman’s underpants (so there is no last minute ‘nick of time’ rescue so beloved of comics).

“Ah ha!” You sneer. “How exactly does he achieve that, given that he does not have mechanical shooters that he loads, the web is produced on demand by his body?”

He has gadgets on his wrists (like watchs) which adds the powdered Kryptonite in metered doses after it leaves his body. Kryptonite is rare, you wouldn’t shoot it at your standard baddie. The gadgets are not activated during his normal crime-fighting day. He only activates the gadgets when he is confronting Superman.

Superman groupies may try their final riposte “you forget that Superman could quite easily disable your ‘kryptonite watches’ from a safe distance with heat rays from his eyes....and then Spidey would be pretty stuffed...a few webs against the man of Steel?”

He wouldn’t know [Superman]. Surprise is everything. He will sneeringly approach Spiderman “Huh. I am the man of steel. I am invulnerable. I will squash Spiderman like a bug!”

He will get a big surprise and get his rse kicked.

WARNING to Spiderman
He mustn’t kick Superman when he’s down. He is the ‘man of steel’ and Spiderman will hurt his toes.

QED.
 
-Fail-
Superman used his super hearing and heard old spidey (creepy crawly) load his webs with kryptonite. Plus Superman was warned by the “invisible lady” (what’s her name?). Super asked the green lantern as back up in case Batman and Robins own shooting gizmo’s failed to intercept the flying kryptonite. Plus the last time I looked old spidy was hanging upside down from a wall. K I S S I N G a Girl!!


But wait…isn’t spidy and superman the goodies?

:)
 
Spiderman will start crying before the fight anyway - he'll get emotional and then get defeated easily. And whine about how his life is so unfair. Then Batman and Superman will both just point and laugh, and walk away.

Anyway, what would happen to the spaceship? It would be torn apart by the gravitational forces, literally get ripped to pieces in seconds.
 
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bwhaha. Big time derailment.

The spaceship will be stretched. Those in the front will experience zero time and max mass.
Those in economy class at the back will have more time and less mass. So they will age a bit faster than those up front. That’s what you get for traveling first class.
 
-Fail-
Superman used his super hearing and heard old spidey (creepy crawly) load his webs with kryptonite. Plus Superman was warned by the “invisible lady” (what’s her name?). Super asked the green lantern as back up in case Batman and Robins own shooting gizmo’s failed to intercept the flying kryptonite. Plus the last time I looked old spidy was hanging upside down from a wall. K I S S I N G a Girl!!


But wait…isn’t spidy and superman the goodies?

:)

You are being frivolous and not taking this seriously. This is a hypothetical situation (re: goodies) and you are bringing in invisible girls, Green Lantern, Batman & Robin. It’s between Spidy and Superman only. Super hearing? Mega-lame.
 
You are being frivolous and not taking this seriously. This is a hypothetical situation (re: goodies) and you are bringing in invisible girls, Green Lantern, Batman & Robin. It’s between Spidy and Superman only. Super hearing? Mega-lame.

I am a Superman fan. Sorry.

Ok spidy comes crawling along and poor old Superman sits there eyeballing him.
Superman likes him so suspects nothing although Spidy refuses eye contact. Superman draws in a deep breath to say Hi Spidy how you doing whats up? Long time no see. Man are you a sight for sore eyes. Take a pew so that I can tell you that I have Lex Luthor here in the back and my hand is on a dead ans switch. If I let Go then the doorwill open and Lex will escape. I really need to go to the little’s boys room so here will you hold the switch for me?

Well as this was a long sentence old spidy took his chance aimed and gazoom, let old Superman have it double squirt and all. Well unfortunately Super did not have a chance to say anything, so his hand relaxed and the door opened squashing old spidy against the wall. Lex came rushing out and tripped over old supy and knocking the Krypton away. Superman recovers and Lex is gone and the spidy is squashed.

Well that’s my version of events.
 
Batman would pwn both of them so STFU :p
 
Batman would pwn both of them so STFU :p

He can’t. According to stringent analysis over dinner by my son and I, as good as he is, he is mortal. Spidy was bitten by a radioactive spider and Superman comes from the planet Krypton. Batman is out of his league and will be mashed-up through no fault of his own.
 
He can’t. According to stringent analysis over dinner by my son and I, as good as he is, he is mortal. Spidy was bitten by a radioactive spider and Superman comes from the planet Krypton. Batman is out of his league and will be mashed-up through no fault of his own.

you son hasn't not taken into account his superior martial arts skills and technology though ;)
 
Batman would pwn both of them so STFU :p

That is why we have,,,,,,SUPER W O M A N !!!! :D

Batman lands ready to kick ass, wait oh my,,,,thats a nice ,ass,,, kissy kissy,
In flies Suerman and kick Barman out of window, town, :mad:
K I S S I N G will get them all the tine:)

Actually Batman is ok. :_) His rubber suit cushioned his landing :whistle:
 
you son hasn't not taken into account his superior martial arts skills and technology though ;)

This is not even a factor. Against Spiderman’s blinding speed, agility and strength his ‘utility belt’ gadgets might keep him out of trouble for 30 seconds. With Superman his skills are irrelevant. It’s like karate chopping a rock.
 
This is not even a factor. Against Spiderman’s blinding speed, agility and strength his ‘utility belt’ gadgets might keep him out of trouble for 30 seconds. With Superman his skills are irrelevant. It’s like karate chopping a rock.

what blinding speed? :confused: spider man can get batarangs that release DOOM, for superman Kryptonine coated armor and batarangs, problems solved



Gawd I never thought I would be having such a nerdy discussion :o
 
what blinding speed? :confused:

Spidy is really fast (much faster than a batarang).

... for superman Kryptonine coated armor and batarangs, problems solved.

That’s cheating if you are bringing-in Kryptonite all the time. You may as well have a crippled, girlchild throw Kryptonite at him. She would win.
 
Spidy is really fast (much faster than a batarang).



That’s cheating if you are bringing-in Kryptonite all the time. You may as well have a crippled, girlchild throw Kryptonite at him. She would win.
well he has no other weakness...
 
Hawking radiation...what a great THEORY!

black holes that spew out light lol...its like that african american scientist that got very close to time traveling...lol, these things are for comic books, but interesting too. Until Steve H creates a blackhole and put me through it...he's just on some BS
 
About sums it up - I just didn't have the energy to respond... probably would have been wasted anyway.
 
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