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I believe that if they exist at all, they are nowhere near as radical as they have been described.

It's just a star that has collapsed in on itself and become a lot smaller and a lot more dense. It's gravitational pull is astronomically more powerful than the average star and anything that gets close enough will get pulled into its surface and destroyed. I don't see the point in making such a big deal out of the fact that the object is crushed by the star's force before crashing into its surface. That just clouds the issue. It completely takes attention away from the crash into the solid surface. That coupled with the name "Hole" causes misunderstandings.

I doubt that black holes give off light. Not because their gravitational pull is so strong, but because they aren't burning anymore. They are also likely to be encased in a cloud of discharge that exists outside of their "Event Horizon".

These things are based on observation of our own sun, metals on Earth, and dense objects.

2006-08-08 09:07:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

I never did like that tern "Event Horizon". That kind of title makes it sound fancier than it actually is.

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2006-08-08 09:08:58 · update #1

To jesito_sascec:

I think that is all a bunch of crap. I think that's what happens when you over dramatize physics.

2006-08-08 09:20:17 · update #2

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2006-08-08 09:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You can't observe our own sun to form theories on black holes anymore than you can observe a mirror to form theories on cheese. Our sun is not a black hole, nor will it ever be, it doesn't have enough mass.

Other way around, Jesito, by the way. The victim falling in would experience time normally, while to an outside observer they would seem to almost stop completely, or so the theory goes.

Adder, you and many other christians desperately need to learn that just because you don't have the capacity to understand something, doesn't mean it's "utter crap". Things exist which you cannot understand. Really, they do. The universe continues to exist and do what it does, whether *you* understand it or not. Damn, how ego-centric can you get?

2006-08-08 16:24:20 · answer #2 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0 0

I thought you would be griping about things like the time flow difference or something like that. What does it matter all that much if you crash on the surface or are crushed before you reach it, dead is dead. I thought you'd be wondering more about the idea that if you are on the outside of the black hole and you watch someone go in, that person will appear to be crushed immediately (within a milisecond), but on the inside that person's time movement is supposed to slow so much that they will die of old age before they are crushed.

Meaning the outside person will see it happen in a milisecond, the inside person will see it happen over approximately 1000 years and yet the same amount of time is passing for both of them. I thought you'd be wondering how that works, because I wonder how that works, but I don't understand the math behind saying that is what will happen.

2006-08-08 16:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Since you asked no question, but rather, made a statement, I have taken it upon myself to interject for the sake of discussion.

Your statement reflects quite a thoughtful discusion of black holes.

Sorry you don't like the term "event horizon", it's necessary nomenclature when discussing black holes.

Light that passes near a black hole actually responds to the intense gravity of the singularity by deviating from its straight-line course. Thus we know that light is effected by gravity.

It is thus reasonable to conclude that light travels more slowly where effected by gravity.

Since light travels at greater rates of speed in a vacuum, it explains how the light from stars "billions of light years" away arrived here in time for Adam to see it.

Personally, I think black holes are nothing more than a means God employed to balance the various forces of the universe so it would function as designed.

2006-08-08 16:12:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I am always amazed that people will trot out their half-assed notions and misconceptions in public, make assinine conclusions based on those misconceptions, then ask questions based on those flawed conclusions... thus, making an a$$ out of themselves.

If you are really interested in black holes, then why don't you read up on them at a university or NASA web site? Maybe then, you will save yourself the embarassment... that is, presuming that you have the sense to be embarassed.

2006-08-08 16:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Most interesting to me is how a black hole warps time and space. And in space, the shortest distance between two points isn't always a straight line. Fascinating stuff.

2006-08-08 16:22:20 · answer #6 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0 0

I was actually going to bother correcting that point by point, but then I realized I'd be a half-dead old man by the time I got to the end of it. Brief History of Time by Hawking and Big Bang Joe Silk are good for people with your ..... ..... abundance of naivete.

2006-08-08 16:11:48 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Yeh, I was wondering why this was on R&S, then I remembered that GOD Created all of this.
That would be Spiritual, I think.
Might ask HIM one day.
I liked the Event Horizon, kinda neat to think about.
Over and out.
Ditto............

2006-08-08 16:18:51 · answer #8 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0 0

1) What does this have to do with religion?
2) What the hell are you babbling about?
3) Who cares what you think?

2006-08-08 16:14:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No but not because of the unscientific points that you make.

2006-08-08 16:14:59 · answer #10 · answered by GJ 5 · 0 0

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