[silverleaf]

cosmos ping

[Fiat volvntas tva]

Black holes do not exists?

Obviously, someone hasn't looked inside Barney Frank's head.

[PeterFinn]

Well, they do exist because we can observe their effects. But can they "exist" the way we understand existence?

Probably not.

And isn't it nice to know that scientists are willing to admit that they don't know it all?

[Dr. Frank fan]

Science just keeps screwing up the best science fiction. First they told me that laser-guns and explosions in space wouldn't make any noise. And that faster-than-light travel wasn't possible, and even near-light travel would screw up peoples' ages relative to each other. That you couldn't have gravity on a ship to let you walk around, etc. Now this?

What's next? No Klingons?

[ElkGroveDan]

Oh yeah? Well then where do our tax dollars go?

[facedown]

But Einstein didn't believe in black holes, Chapline argues.

Einstein also believed that "God doesn't play dice" when in fact The Old Guy is an inveterate gambler.

[punster]

Black Holes suck!

[Straight Vermonter]

Another recent theory is that black holes are essential to galaxy formation. So who is correct?

[ApplegateRanch]

So black holes don't exist, we're just seeing something that looks and acts like a black hole would, except for utilizing a different mechanism?

No matter what, it still sucks.

[G32]

Well this would just throw out about 60 years of cosmology.. Jeez.

[Publius6961]

Sorry guys, but you'll have to resolve this one without me.

Every time I try to grasp quantum physics, event horizons, black holes and super-dense dark matter, my head starts to explode and I have to go find something I can deal with like digging a posthole or sorting my socks.

[martin_fierro]

70% the Universe seems to be composed of a strange 'dark energy' that is driving the Universe's accelerating expansion.

I AM THE FATHER OF 70% OF YOU.

[the right side jedi]

yeah im not buying this. I need to see some equations and evidence before I believe any of this. I have a background in physics and I get the impression that he doesnt understand some aspects about general relativity. The problem with quantum mechanics at the boundary comes most likely from the fact that we have no theory of gravitational quantum mechanics. I've noticed that some physicists when they cant explain something like to say its because of dark matter/energy

[Starve The Beast]

I'm shattered. I mean, when you can't put your faith in an object of zero dimension, infinite surface gravity and incalculable spin connected by an instantaneous link to another point in the universe, what CAN you put your faith in?

[DakotaGator]

Of course black holes exist. That's where all of my money goes. Wait. That's taxes!

[neutrality]

Your link doesn't appear to be working

[Hot Tabasco]

"It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist,"

Obviously the writer has never spent a spring here in Michigan and blown a tire and ruined his suspension hitting one of those non-existant black holes.........

[Bars4Bill]

George Chapline never met Hillary Clinton.

[Nick Danger]

I don't know from this stuff, but when I look up at night, what I see are white holes. Whatever is out there is black, and there's a whole bunch of it. Except there are these little white holes in it in the shapes of bears and crabs and stuff. I think these might be primitive sky drawings done by asteroid men whose only tool was the "pin."

[MaxMax]

Free space trips tomorrow. Eat at Cosmos.