>Jeroen, >>You are basing your argument on the necessity to travel from >point A to point B in a straight line. However, what if a >hypothetical alien race has overcome the huge obstacles >involved in this by being able to "jump" from A to B by >another route ? This would bypass the problem entirely. >True. But I think that highly unlikely.>As for "the laws of physics", I don't believe that these ARE >firm when it comes to objects travelling at the speed of >light......or inside a black hole. As an example, the latter >suggests that the entire mass of the remnant of a massive >star has been compressed into a tiny point that has no >volume. With respect to "the laws of physics", this is >ludicrous. Scientists love to play around with ideas about >black holes, but in my opinion they are a LONG way off >proving them. >Not quite. Mass/energy conservation tells that mass == energy.When passing the event horizon of a black hole the majority of the mass of the object could well be converted into energy (radiation).Black holes radiate an enormous amount of energy outwards from their event horizon.This is in fact the only way we're able to detect them (remember that magnetic fields are also energy).

The problem with this argument is that you would have to accept that radiation has mass.Chris Low,ENGLAND.