After that scary Hallmark/NAACP brouhaha over the racism in one of their cards I was a little uneasy presenting this next story. But then I reminded myself to stay true to my Unruly Peasant ideals and not be controlled by anyone’s Emily Latella.
A universe could exist ‘inside every black hole,’ claims scientist
Using an adaptation of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, Nikodem Poplawski, of Indiana University, Bloomington, analysed the theoretical motion of particles entering a black hole.
He concluded that it was possible for a whole new universe to exist inside every black hole, which could mean that our own universe could be inside a black hole as well.
“Maybe the huge black holes at the centre of the Milky Way and other galaxies are bridges to different universes,” he told New Scientist
Interesting speculation, indeed. However, stuff like this is at the edge of my brain comprehension. I’m afraid my brain will go into a black hole, if it’s not already in!
Wow!!!
Maybe there’s another government inside the one where all our money disappears.
LOL!
LOL! Again!
LOL times 3!
put that in wiki as a definition of “lobbyist” for the win.
This Carl Sagan want-to-be’s theory contradicts my controversial “Big Bunny” theory that posits there are big (and I mean huge) cosmic bunnies that live in the Black Holes and we are being slowly sucked into one as the days go by. Doesn’t it almost seem as though we’re way down a bunny hole right now? My theory is just as plausible and I didn’t require a multi-million dollar federal grant to come up with it. Just saying, this poser should get a shovel ready job and stop watching Star Trek .
Matter warps the shape of space. So the speculation is that a great enough concentration of matter in a limited space might cause that bit of space to wrap around itself in what I’ve heard playfully called a “vest pocket universe”. That chunk of space would then become inaccessible from here.
A black hole is isolated, in that the concentration of mass is vast, and the gravity is so intense that nothing can escape, not even light. Thus we can’t “see” a black hole; we can only observe its effect. There was a time when we weren’t sure whether black holes really existed or were just a crazy theory, but now we’ve found them. A black hole is very small…we’re talking about a few miles here, at least on the outside. From our perspective, you couldn’t live there; if you got sucked in, you’d be immediately squished into a microdot. Could be the black hole is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
One of the deep questions of cosmology is whether our universe is infinite (goes on forever) or finite (space wraps around itself, so if you travel far enough, you’ll get back to where you started). The issue is resolved by the amount of matter in the universe…is there enough “stuff” to pull space back such that it wraps, or not enough, in which case it tumbles on forever. The current consensus is there’s not enough, so the universe is infinite.
Being infinite isn’t necessarily good. It implies that the galaxies may fly apart forever and ever, until the stars all burn out and everything becomes cold and stagnant and very, very alone.
Glass Half Empty: “…the stars all burn out and everything becomes cold and stagnant and very, very alone.” Glass Half Full: No Liberals.
http://www.physorg.com/news199591806.html
“By suggesting that mass, time, and length can be converted into one another as the universe evolves, Wun-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological models that may fit observations of the universe better than the current big bang model. What this means specifically is that the new models might explain the increasing acceleration of the universe without relying on a cosmological constant such as dark energy, as well as solve or eliminate other cosmological dilemmas such as the flatness problem and the horizon problem.”
Tammy, Governor Palin did have an important role in the Governors Associate…..Palin Named to Key Post at NGA Meeting….http://wayback.archive-it.org/1200/20090726175351/http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=507&type=1
She should have been in their ad.
Sounds a bit like Horton hears a Who to me