antihorizon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The opposite of an event horizon, allowing escape but not entry.
Example Sentences
- "White holes must therefore be surrounded by the opposite of an event horizon, something known as an antihorizon, which would allow one-way traffic out and never in. Unfortunately, antihorizons are very unstable and get converted to normal horizons in a matter of seconds after forming."
- "The Kruskal diagram of the Schwarzschild geometry showed it to possess not only a normal horizon but also an antihorizon, beyond which there was, supposedly, another Universe."
- "To distant observers the light appears, due to gravitational time dilation, to slow down as it approaches the antihorizon."