Re: More "No Hair"

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

> But now I have another question: what other types of Black Holes *could*
> there be????  I mean after everything is stripped apart and squished down to
> a solid mass of quarks or whatever things quarks are made of, what other
> characteristics *could* there be beside mass and spin?????
>
>
> Jim Green
> JMGreen@sisna.com
>                                      
Electric charge. This is the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole solution. 
It has no practical utility, though, since any excess charge would 
quickly draw in the opposite charge to neutralize itself. Think 
"conserved quantities" and you know what the hairs must be.

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