Posted on 04/30/2008 8:00:18 AM PDT by RightWhale
That galaxy managed it, why can’t we deal with Jimmy Carter the same way?
The General/Chat/ Astronomy/Science forums are ideally-suited for this topic.
Same thing happened to me when I was 18.
In fairness to my parents, though, while I wasn’t a black hole when I was 18, I was an @$$hole.
Very interesting!
Wow. Imagine that... what kind of forces are needed to kick a black hole out of the gravity well of not just one black hole, but the center of a galaxy?
OMG, that was one hell of a recoil to kick that much mass away at 2650km/s! Just... WOW!
Meanwhile, the grandparent galaxy flinches in a typical way when the black hole’s friends come around.
Its called a black hole because you cant SEE IT...
Duuuuugh!...
This plan includes the sale of event horizon credits.
How is anybody expected to believe that a black hole would ever form up via gravity (or that there actually are such things as black holes) given that?
Going to be interesting to see how many supermassive black holes they think are careening through the universe at relativistic speeds. Scary thought, one of those things coming at you... Quick, somebody break out the solar sails and deflect it!
My shoulder's hurting just thinking about it.
LOL
You mean halfway to the edge of the *observable* universe. We can only 'see' or detect things that are close enough for their light to have reached us during the lifespan of the universe. And the universe can, theoretically, expand FASTER than light (in apparent violation of Einstein's special relativity). However, this is only because the phenomenon doesn't involve an object physically moving *through* space, but rather the dimensionality of space-time stretching.
FGI: one light year, the *distance* light travels in 1 year--at 186,000 miles per second, is roughly 6 trillion miles! 6,000 BILLION miles!
FGI (I think I just made it up?) = "for general information".
Microtubules at the quantum level contain our consciousness says Penrose. Timeless and therefore eternal. Time enough to study the basic tools of cosmology.
We don’t actually know that either.
Lol, I hear ‘ya! It’d totally obliterate my shoulder (and probably every molecule in my body) to fire an ordinary rifle (if such a rifle could be called ordinary) with that kind of muzzle velocity, never mind one that could shoot out several hundred solar masses... It’s just so... Inconceivable!
That would make us forget about our ‘recession’ and ‘food crisis’ and ‘Rev Wright’ for a minute or two.
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