Re: No Hair

[George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>]

At 08:34 AM 7/22/97 -0600, you wrote:
> What does the list suppose Hawking means when he says that a "black hole has
> no hair"?


The measurable properties of a black hole, and hence of anything which
crosses the event horizon, are:

mass, angular momentum, charge

All other information is lost, so there's "nothing else to grab on to" if
you wish to study the beast!
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