Tango01 | 21 Aug 2018 4:25 p.m. PST |
"If you believe the creations of science fiction, black holes serve as gateways to other worlds, either distant parts of this universe or other universes entirely. But the reality might be more complicated than that. And outside of the sci-fi realm, dropping into a black hole is a bad idea. Even so, it turns out that people who enter a black hole would have at least a slight chance of escaping, either back into their own world or to some exotic place. This is because black holes actually bend space itself, and so could bring points that are ordinarily distant from each other much closer together. An oft-used analogy is the bending of a piece of paper. If you draw a line on the paper, it follows the paper's shape and the line's length is unchanged by bending the paper. But if you go through the paper, the end points of the line are much closer to one another. Understanding this requires diving into Einstein's theory of relativity as applied to gravity…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Cacique Caribe | 21 Aug 2018 4:57 p.m. PST |
Again the issue of priorities among geniuses. Always putting the cart before the horse. The first question should be … will humans ever be able to travel to one of those distant things to ever benefit from what they could do? Dan |
thosmoss | 21 Aug 2018 5:20 p.m. PST |
Sorry, but Disney's movie "Black Hole" had a cast of characters who left me hoping the gravitational variances would tear them apart long before they reached any sort of event horizon … |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 21 Aug 2018 7:51 p.m. PST |
We're not going to travel to black holes and see where they send us. We're going to create our own black hole and point it in the right direction to take us where we want to go! |
Thresher01 | 21 Aug 2018 10:56 p.m. PST |
Have to agree on the dreck of the Black Hole movie. Nothing should escape that abomination. |
Cacique Caribe | 22 Aug 2018 2:00 a.m. PST |
Oberlindes: "We're going to create our own black hole and point it in the right direction to take us where we want to go!" I think the scientists should be the first to go through. Dan |
Legion 4 | 22 Aug 2018 7:10 a.m. PST |
At this point it's all very much just "theory" … AFAIK or we know ? |
miniMo | 22 Aug 2018 8:39 a.m. PST |
Legion 4, we know! Remember that time that a bit of Godzilla's DNA got sucked into a black hole, mutated into Space Godzilla and then came out a white hole? |
Tango01 | 22 Aug 2018 1:04 p.m. PST |
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Zephyr1 | 22 Aug 2018 2:58 p.m. PST |
If you can't escape a black hole at this end, how are you going to escape it at the other end? Oh wait, you won't anyway, because you'll be DEAD! :-o |
Legion 4 | 22 Aug 2018 3:06 p.m. PST |
Legion 4, we know! Remember that time that a bit of Godzilla's DNA got sucked into a black hole, mutated into Space Godzilla and then came out a white hole? That's Classified … AFAIK … |
miniMo | 22 Aug 2018 5:35 p.m. PST |
Legion 4, that was declassified last century. I recall seeing a big newsreel on it back in '94. |