Talk:A Roller Coaster Ride through Relativity/Mass inflation

"The instant the Sun runs out of nuclear fuel in its core, the photon pressure will disappear and the Sun's interior will collapse causing a massive explosion called a supernova which will engulf the Earth and obliterate all traces of life on it." This isn't correct. The Sun isn't massive enough to go supernova; it will expand into a red giant, before collapsing back into a white dwarf. FreeFull (discuss • contribs) 17:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Alternate meaning
In the context of black holes, the term "mass inflation" means something completely different -- it refers to an instability inside of balck holes, arising from counter-streaming of flows, exponentially accelerated to tremendous energies, high enough to create new "baby universes" inside of them. In general, in physics, the word "inflation" is reserved for phenomena with exponential growth. Here, in special relativity, the mass does increase, but not exponentially; it never runs away or explodes. 67.198.37.16 (discuss) 18:02, 21 April 2019 (UTC)