Posted on 03/31/2005 4:41:46 PM PST by Michael_Michaelangelo
Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist.
Over the past few years, observations of the motions of galaxies have shown that some 70% the Universe seems to be composed of a strange 'dark energy' that is driving the Universe's accelerating expansion.
George Chapline thinks that the collapse of the massive stars, which was long believed to generate black holes, actually leads to the formation of stars that contain dark energy. "It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist," he claims.
Black holes are one of the most celebrated predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which explains gravity as the warping of space-time caused by massive objects. The theory suggests that a sufficiently massive star, when it dies, will collapse under its own gravity to a single point.
But Einstein didn't believe in black holes, Chapline argues. "Unfortunately", he adds, "he couldn't articulate why." At the root of the problem is the other revolutionary theory of twentieth-century physics, which Einstein also helped to formulate: quantum mechanics.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Just be sure to use a really HOT cup of tea!
Mark
ROTFLOL
Even funnier, right after you posted; the "the right side jedi" did.
I once threw a frisbee that was sucked into a wormhole and never seen again.
"Not to mention his ___"
No, I'm almost certain someone has looked in his ___, as horrible as that is to consider.
Actually, we are pets and the little white holes are so we can breathe.
No one ever got on the Art Bell show by saying they "didn't" believe in something.
You are very close to "unraveling" (just like those socks) the Masonic Conspiracy.
Have you ever met Quix?
Is that the Flux Capacitor?
That's rather like saying, "'The Iliad' wasn't written by Homer, but by another Greek of the same name."
Geez..This post is almost is like looking at Strobe Lights! LOL..
Thanks for the ping!
Dark matter/energy smells an awful lot like phlostigon to me, ie a hypothetical substance defined to solve a problem in current theory.
that looks like some of the stuff I studied in Biochem..... jeez, what's scary is that I can follow those formulas... dang benzene rings and carbons with 4 bonds...... aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! the nightmares.
Please just tell me that's not the chemical formula for Jack Daniels.
Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking
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Posted on 08/03/2004 1:16:56 AM EDT by CarrotAndStick
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ping
LOL!
There are Black holes same as White holes, but neither sucks, they blow.
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