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Big Bang in Reverse

A singularity is an impossible concentration of matter/energy. Whatever goes into a Black Hole must erupt into another universe, either one that's already there or one created at the other end of the Black Hole.

In the way they are presented by physicists who jump to irrational conclusions, the Quantum Leap and Entanglement are also impossible.
 
I’m addicted to shows like “NOVA” (one of the few important outcomes of PBS).

Season 50, Episode 37 is labeled “Black Hole Universe” is one of those. I’m not a man of science. I wish I were but … to be even close to being on par with the kind of scientists in this episode, I’d have to be many times smarter.

I love science. I just don’t do it very well.

But the main presenter is an astrophysics, from Yale (I think). To even be able to summarize the history of the development of this branch of science implies an even greater IQ.

Kudoa to PBS.
Listen to the Star Talk podcast sometime. There are gems.
 
Big Bang in Reverse

A singularity is an impossible concentration of matter/energy. Whatever goes into a Black Hole must erupt into another universe, either one that's already there or one created at the other end of the Black Hole.

In the way they are presented by physicists who jump to irrational conclusions, the Quantum Leap and Entanglement are also impossible.
"Impossible" with our current understanding of physics.
 
Big Bang in Reverse
Meaningless.

A singularity is an impossible concentration of matter/energy.
Obviously not, since they do occur all over the universe.

Whatever goes into a Black Hole must erupt into another universe, either one that's already there or one created at the other end of the Black Hole.
Other end of the black hole? None of this is known or even theorized by serious scientists. There is no need for the stuff to go anywhere, though some like to speculate that the stuff taken up into a BH comes out somewhere else in a White Hole, but none of this is supported by observation as it would violate the First Law of Thermodynamics.
 
On the subject itself it is interesting, deeply interesting because general relativity produces a "singularity" for matter that has passed "through" the event horizon and that violates laws so we know there's something else going on besides just general relativity. The GR theory becomes contradictory leading to violations of laws that it itself assumes are always true.

Also black holes were envisaged centuries before Einstein, if my memory serves.
As I recall, it was a John Michael--Michel?--something like that--in the last 18th Century who was credited with being the first to theorize about 'dark stars' with such powerful gravity nothing, not even light, could escape them. In his day he was probably blown off as a crackpot by most.

I don't believe or disbelieve a lot of stuff put out there as science. But I tend to go with the old maxim that if it can be imagined, it can be done. Eventually.
 
As I recall, it was a John Michael--Michel?--something like that--in the last 18th Century who was credited with being the first to theorize about 'dark stars' with such powerful gravity nothing, not even light, could escape them. In his day he was probably blown off as a crackpot by most.

I don't believe or disbelieve a lot of stuff put out there as science. But I tend to go with the old maxim that if it can be imagined, it can be done. Eventually.
It was a cool idea, but he was close to "right" for all the wrong reasons.
 
Meaningless.


Obviously not, since they do occur all over the universe.


Other end of the black hole? None of this is known or even theorized by serious scientists. There is no need for the stuff to go anywhere, though some like to speculate that the stuff taken up into a BH comes out somewhere else in a White Hole, but none of this is supported by observation as it would violate the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Science fiction needs "faster-than-light" travel ... or the stories are too dull ...

I still like the idea quark-degenerate matter inside a BH ... going into a BH just makes us more quark-degenerate matter ... a new state-of-matter ... cheaper than dark matter ... safer than worm holes ...

... or our equations are wrong and gravity is actually something novel and still unknown ... that's happened before ...
 
We reviewed the case in my Undergrad Engineering Ethics class. I watched a video of Roger Bojalay explaining the meeting they had, and how it made him thing they had a real real problem.
NASA didn't want to admit that it was the problem. Then Feynman did a live on TV demonstration of how the cold made the O ring fail.
 
NASA didn't want to admit that it was the problem. Then Feynman did a live on TV demonstration of how the cold made the O ring fail.

Feynman didn't agree entirely with the Roberts Report. I remember he had some theoretical hangup.
 
The anti-science trumpanzees are coming, better watch all the NOVA you can before its too late, I mean, we don't want the public benefitting from public money do we...

Took longer than usual, but we still made it! :auiqs.jpg:

 
Right...But they still learned nothing from the general attitude that overlooked safety concerns.

They did, but the problem is complacency. Right after Apollo 1 they were serious about it, but like anything once it becomes rote it becomes less and less noticed.

In Construction we have most of our accidents right before holidays, in the middle of jobs, when people are complacent and in a hurry at the end of the day to go home.
 
Science fiction needs "faster-than-light" travel ... or the stories are too dull ...
Well, the truth is that even at warp speed, the stars on the screen would hardly be moving if any at all, but faster than light travel has been theoretically conceded.

I still like the idea quark-degenerate matter inside a BH ... going into a BH just makes us more quark-degenerate matter ... a new state-of-matter ... cheaper than dark matter ... safer than worm holes
I like quark degenerated matter as well, but no one can say what happens to the quarks once the strong force is overcome.
As to dark matter, I'm convinced it is real, as opposed to dark energy which thus far is just a convenient invention designed to satisfy a gaping flaw between theory and observation, but I also speculate a connection between black holes and dark matter; there is a hidden connection between the weak force of gravity and the ultimate state of the universe. And since gravity causes space to curve back upon itself then time must curve back upon itself as well making beginning and end all relative. In fact, some have speculated that our universe is but a black hole (or a quark) within an even larger universe.

But as of now, I believe we are still completely getting wrong the true nature and role of gravity and its relationship with spacetime, but the important point is to not fall into the trap that the universe is an object, something positioned with boundaries in space and time like a cube you can hold in your hand; the universe is mind, consciousness, and as such, is unlimited, unbounded-- whatever can be imagined can be done because thought creates reality, not the other way around.
 

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