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Goodbye Big Bang, hello black hole? A new theory of the universe's creation
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| 9/19/13
| Elizabeth Howell
Posted on 09/19/2013 6:56:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Personally I think it all started not with a 4D star but rather with WD-4D
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:56:27 PM PDT
by
wonkowasright
(Wonko from outside the asylum)
To: Vince Ferrer
My understanding is that, in general, a singularity is just a region of spacetime that you can't get any information out of or into. You can't make any predictions or draw any conclusions or inferences about what's there. Our models break down.
So there is the technological singularity a la Kurzweil. In math, it's a function that goes to infinity and you can't do anything with it at that point. In physics, the only kind of singularities I can think of are stellar black holes, supermassive black holes and universes in some kind of giant multiverse.
IMO, when we're talking about all the mass of our universe being compressed into an infinitely dense black hole, we're talking about something that is many, many orders of magnitude more massive than a regular black hole and may therefore, perhaps, be a totally different kind of creature, as we've seen so many times before in physics when our focus changes by many orders of magnitude. Just my two cents; I'm definitely no physicist!
To: LibWhacker
What? No Way! Leave the Big Bang Theory alone!. We would miss Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Raj, and Penny...
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posted on
09/19/2013 8:08:13 PM PDT
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
To: LibWhacker
Yet another theory that will no doubt be knocked down by other physicists within 2 months. These things pop up more than Japanese porn sites on an unsecure computer. Loop quantum gravity models, oscillating models, etc.
It seems to be a contest to see who can come up with the most bizarre way of refuting an absolute beginning to the universe. A four dimensional star collapsing? What is this, Twilight Zone?
To: MeshugeMikey
Nothing comes from nothing...ever
If you believe evolution then:
Rocks + heat + billions of years = humans
Something from nothing, if you believe evolution
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posted on
09/19/2013 8:22:56 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
To: Personal Responsibility
Gas+Billions of Years= The Democrat Party
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posted on
09/19/2013 8:25:09 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Nothing causes nothing to come into existence. Causeless effects?
And yet no energy or matter Law of Conservation of Energy points to neither being destroyed.. nor created. They can only be transformed from one state to another.
So maybe the black hole idea is not too far fetched and should be more carefully investigated before being dismissed as "bunk" opr junk or what ever you called it.
People spent time in prison or excommunicated for odd ball thoughts like the universe does not revolve around the earth... silly huh?
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posted on
09/19/2013 8:27:05 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS... We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dems care!)
To: LibWhacker
But I thought the science was settled and there was consensus?
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posted on
09/19/2013 8:34:20 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: LibWhacker
Humans obviously weren't around at the time the universe began. And God's not talking...
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posted on
09/19/2013 8:59:36 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/19/2013 9:34:18 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Cicero
Where did the four-dimensional star and the black hole come from? From the collapse of the five dimensional star?
Just like the Hindu model of the cosmos, the universe is a sphere riding on the back of a giant tortoise. Which in turn is riding on the back of a still larger tortoise, and so on ad infinitum.
Like the old guru said, "it's tortoises all the way to the bottom!"
Regards,
GtG
PS The large fleas have smaller fleas upon their backs to bitem.
The smaller fleas, still smaller fleas and so ad infinitum.
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posted on
09/19/2013 9:41:29 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: MeshugeMikey
in the so called natural world...Nothing comes from nothing...ever Not if nothing is something. Matter and antimatter react by being something dissolving into "nothing." So what is the nothing made of?
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
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posted on
09/20/2013 7:27:30 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; backwoods-engineer; ...
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posted on
09/21/2013 10:52:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: Nowhere Man
I do too, but it was a science fiction story. Been a long time, and I forget which one.
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