Talk:A Matter of Time (Stargate SG-1)

Gravity increase

If a star turns into a black hole there would be little gravitational effect to nearby planets. In order to cause an increase in gravity there must be an increase in mass, or a decrease in distance. The reason that black holes have such strong gravitational feilds is that you can get a lot closer to thier centers without accually going inside. — Daniel 23:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a shame this myth is perpetuated in scifi shows. Black holes do not actively "suck" stuff into it. The gravity field would be the same or less than before the star collapsed (because of mass blow-off). The event horizon of a typical stellar-mass black hole is very small, and the planet would never be anywhere close to it, and thus suffer no noticeable relativity effects. If our sun suddenly turned into a black hole, all the planets would still orbit just as they do now and would NOT be sucked into it. I also loved how a guy standing next to the iris says "I'm reading 7 G's", yet he still is standing upright on the floor, which would be totally impossible if there were really 7 G's in the horizontal direction. This is one of the worst episodes that ignores many simple laws of physics (I know it's scifi, but shows like Star Trek at least TRY to get their facts somewhat straight). Quovatis 15:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)