This just in: "Gravity's Rainbow" not just for English majors anymore

[Mike Weaver]

How about:
Cannot be observed in this space-time continuum

or even
'positively identified and detained'


On 02/02/2015 05:04, David Morris wrote:
> Define "exist."
>
> On Sunday, February 1, 2015, Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com 
> <mailto:washoepete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     http://phys.org/news/2015-01-black-holes-space-theory.html
>
>     In a new paper, physicists Ahmed Farag Ali, Mir Faizal, and Barun
>     Majunder have shown that, according to a new generalization of
>     Einstein's theory <http://phys.org/tags/theory/> of gravity
>     <http://phys.org/tags/gravity/> called "gravity's rainbow," it is
>     not possible to define the position of the event horizon
>     <http://phys.org/tags/event+horizon/> with arbitrary precision. If
>     the event horizon can't be defined, then the black hole itself
>     effectively does not exist.
>
>     "In gravity's rainbow, space <http://phys.org/tags/space/> does
>     not exist below a certain minimum length, and time does not exist
>     below a certain minimum time interval," Ali, a physicist at the
>     Zewail City of Science and Technology and Benha University, both
>     in Egypt, told /Phys.org/. "So, all objects existing in space and
>     occurring at a time do not exist below that length and time
>     interval [which are associated with the Planck scale]. As the
>     event horizon is a place in space which exists at a point in time,
>     it also does not exist below that scale."
>

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