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One of Stephen Hawking's Most Famous Theories About Black Holes Just Suffered a Huge Blow
www.livescience.com ^ | April 25, 2019 07:15am ET | By Meredith Fore

Posted on 04/25/2019 7:37:31 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Skywise

exactly


21 posted on 04/25/2019 8:11:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: tophat9000

> Does gravity affect light?

That’s an extremely unsimple question, given that there is no accepted mechanism for how gravity works at all, never mind how it would affect something with zero mass like light.

The true answer is: we do not know. We see effects that may be caused in this manner, or may be caused by other phenomena.


22 posted on 04/25/2019 8:11:50 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: nwrep

Mathematics is also the language of fiction.

You can create anything you want via mathematical manipulation - including proving absurdities through the use of infinities as is done throughout the Big Bang dogma-doctrine.

Using the same techniques used to “prove” black holes exist, I can prove that you do not exist. It’s masturbatory garbage being passed off as math, being passed off as physics.


23 posted on 04/25/2019 8:13:33 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Red Badger

His theory about God was even worse.


24 posted on 04/25/2019 8:13:37 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The very idea of a singularity is an absurdity.

But you don’t have a black hole without one, do you?

So you’re dependent on infinities all the way through, it’s the very basis of the assertion that black holes exist.


25 posted on 04/25/2019 8:14:38 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: DesertRhino

Not invisible, just unknown. “Dark matter” really is a unique instance of physics being humble. It’s their way of saying, “there seems to be much more matter in the universe than we can explain.”

Dark matter isn’t necessarily dark, although most of it is probably far away enough from any light source like a star to be pretty dimly lit. “Dark” simply means “unknown,” the way that Africa used to be called “the Dark Continent,” or pre-Guttenberg, post-Alexandria European history was called “the Dark Ages.”


26 posted on 04/25/2019 8:16:41 AM PDT by dangus
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To: thoughtomator

Has math ever predicted anything in physics?


27 posted on 04/25/2019 8:18:04 AM PDT by Reily
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To: thoughtomator

I love how a “Black Hole” is referred to as a SINGULARITY, then in the next breath we’re told one exists in every galactic core.

Does each one open into the same parallel universe, or its own separate multiverse?

Inquiring minds want to know!


28 posted on 04/25/2019 8:19:09 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: sparklite2

They moved on.........................


29 posted on 04/25/2019 8:19:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

‘Black Holes’ are real, it’s just that ‘Primordial’ Black Holes may not be..................

Absolutely.

One of the things not mentioned in the article: the smaller the black hole, the faster it evaporates, and at the end of the evaporation it explodes in a blaze of light. They mention the “flashes” associated with a small black hole passing in front of a start, but not the bright flash of a small black hole in the last few seconds of its violent release of the remains of its mass in Hawking Radiation.

Maybe that’s an aspect of the theory that’s not totally accepted. But it’s certainly out there and certainly written about a lot an not mentioned in this article at all.

Strange.


30 posted on 04/25/2019 8:20:24 AM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: thoughtomator

Actually you don’t need a singularity to have a black hole. That’s just a mathematical inevitability based on our current knowledge of physics. A black hole is only the result of an object’s escape velocity exceeding the speed of light. And according to general relativity, it should take eternity for a singularity to form anyway, due to gravitational time dilation effects as the black hole collapses. We don’t really know what would happen at the point of singularity.


31 posted on 04/25/2019 8:21:01 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Skywise

Actually his theories completely changed theoretical and quantum physics. He is a clear delineation line in the thinking of multiple fields before and after him.


32 posted on 04/25/2019 8:21:21 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: Red Badger

Stephen WHO?

He is, as Lara was in Dr. Zhivago, “as forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was later mislaid.”

Like John......? You know John......? The old Senator from Arizona? Kyl?? No I don’t think it was Jon Kyl.

You get my point.


33 posted on 04/25/2019 8:21:32 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

True that, right now he doesn’t even care about black holes except wishing he could get to one to possibly end the torment he is in. However while he had the timing wrong the Big Bang confirms Genesis to me. A dark void them God spoke to create everything, Gods voice was the big bang.


34 posted on 04/25/2019 8:22:43 AM PDT by rebel25 (GOD, Family, guns, and duck hunting, everything else is just noise.)
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To: thoughtomator

There’s a picture. They are very much real.


35 posted on 04/25/2019 8:23:18 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: thoughtomator

Singularities probably don’t actually exist. They are hypothetical constructs used for describing the math of what WOULD happen, if matter reached the center of a black hole. But matter never can go past the event horizon. This is known as “cosmic censorship.” Although in 1991, a couple of physicists suggested that at a small enough scale, the potential for a singularity might not be trapped inside an event horizon, suggesting that a real (or “naked,” because it’s uncensored and uncovered) singularity MIGHT exist. But this doesn’t mean that they do, or that they aren’t even nonsensical from a real-world point-of-view.


36 posted on 04/25/2019 8:23:34 AM PDT by dangus
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To: LeonardFMason

Dr. Who’s first name is NOT Stephen.


37 posted on 04/25/2019 8:24:09 AM PDT by dangus
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To: discostu

There’s a picture of a plasmoid.

You’re looking a photo of a bear and calling it proof of Bigfoot.


38 posted on 04/25/2019 8:26:37 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

This may be a stupid question then, but would it not be mathematically possible to measure the mads needed to create a black hole by using escape velocity as the determination, I mean Earth has a mass of 1 let’s say and an escape velocity of x, then just determine how much more mass it would take to make the escape velocity C???


39 posted on 04/25/2019 8:27:25 AM PDT by rebel25 (GOD, Family, guns, and duck hunting, everything else is just noise.)
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To: thoughtomator

No. We’re looking at a photo of what was predicted to be around a blackhole and seeing what was expected. Blackholes exist, you are off in the exact never never land you erroneously say the physicists are in.


40 posted on 04/25/2019 8:28:40 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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