"First of all, you approach the speed of light as you fall into the black hole. So the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time," he said. "Furthermore, as you fall, there are things that have been falling in front of you that have experienced an even greater 'time dilation' than you have. So if you're able to look forward toward the black hole, you see every object that has fallen into it in the past. And then if you look backwards, you'll be able to see everything that will ever fall into the black hole behind you.
"So the upshot is, you'll get to see the entire history of that spot in the universe simultaneously," he said, "from the Big Bang all the way into the distant future."
-- TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man. "You have issues." - MWC. Pot. Kettle.
I think the best apocalypse would be for the Earth to be swallowed by a black hole. We'd get to see an amazing phenomenon before instant death. Much better than being incinerated by a supernova, imo.
You think that's strange? There's a band about three (or was it 1.5?) radii beyond the center of the black hole where light forms in an orbit around the black hole: You can potentially see the back of your head by looking forward from that place. As you fall in beyond that, because of how light follows the curved trajectory of space, the universe shrinks to a single point above your head (assuming your feet are aimed at the black hole anyway).
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What's up with all the negativity? Fun fact about space: it's 99.99999999% empty. And what time we spend learning about black holes and **** could be spent doing and investing in other, more practical things.
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From: Westbrick | #020 What's up with all the negativity? Fun fact about space: it's 99.99999999% empty. And what time we spend learning about black holes and **** could be spent doing and investing in other, more practical things.
Westbrick posted... What's up with all the negativity? Fun fact about space: it's 99.99999999% empty. And what time we spend learning about black holes and **** could be spent doing and investing in other, more practical things.
What's it like to be so soul-crushingly boring?
-- TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man. "You have issues." - MWC. Pot. Kettle.
From: Westbrick | #020 What's up with all the negativity? Fun fact about space: it's 99.99999999% empty. And what time we spend learning about black holes and **** could be spent doing and investing in other, more practical things.
You could compress the Earth to the size of a sugar cube if you removed the empty space. And the pursuit of knowledge about the nature of our universe is always a noble goal.
Speaking of SPACE I bought a telescope a few weeks ago and it's so cool. I got some higher magnification eyepieces recently and as soon it's clear imma find me some Messier objects.
From: baron von toast | #024 Speaking of SPACE I bought a telescope a few weeks and it's so cool. I got some higher magnification eyepieces recently and as soon it's clear imma find me some Messier objects.
I wish I still had my telescope, it's broken now. How much are they nowadays?
And there's a difference between saying "at the smallest micro level, solid material is primarily empty space, so *insert sugar cube analogy*" versus "there is literally nothing going on in space for hundreds of thousands of light years."
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From: Westbrick | #030 What's it like to be so soul-crushingly boring?
I'm like a black hole of practicality.
And there's a difference between saying "at the smallest micro level, solid material is primarily empty space, so *insert sugar cube analogy*" versus "there is literally nothing going on in space for hundreds of thousands of light years."
And?..
Would you rather have us speak about less empty things but still not practical to talk about? Like I don't know, the deep sea.
Astronomy is cool but having four different people immediately gang up on someone who just said he finds it boring is YouTube-level. I didn't expect that from you guys.
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The sad thing is that there should be scientific advancements in medicine, but there really aren't, mostly a lot of people abusing statistics for fun and profit rather than actual work getting done. It's kinda telling that our generations life expectancy is dropping below our parents' (Dunno by which metrics or what source, so grain and salt etc.)
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From: PartOfYourWorld | #034 Astronomy is cool but having four different people immediately gang up on someone who just said he finds it boring is YouTube-level. I didn't expect that from you guys.
*Bunch of people talking about something they like*
*Random dude barges in, tell them what they like is boring*
From: ToukaOone | #035 The sad thing is that there should be scientific advancements in medicine, but there really aren't, mostly a lot of people abusing statistics for fun and profit rather than actual work getting done. It's kinda telling that our generations life expectancy is dropping below our parents' (Dunno by which metrics or what source, so grain and salt etc.)
It's because we're fatter!
And medicine is advancing yo, we're starting to find possible ways to cure AIDS and cancer, as well as many diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson.
From: PartOfYourWorld | #034 Astronomy is cool but having four different people immediately gang up on someone who just said he finds it boring is YouTube-level. I didn't expect that from you guys.
PartOfYourWorld posted... Astronomy is cool but having four different people immediately gang up on someone who just said he finds it boring is YouTube-level. I didn't expect that from you guys.
To be fair, he could have simply ignored the topic if he didn't care about this stuff.
I don't run into every Metal Gear topic and got "I don't like this series."
Sure, he's welcome to his opinion. He's a big boy, he can defend his own opinion if he wants to.
-- TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man. "You have issues." - MWC. Pot. Kettle.
I did defend it. My position is that space is cool, but overhyped. Basically the Final Fantasy VII of natural science.
FFVII hasn't been overhyped in years, if anything it's now under appreciated because it was the game that was 'cool' to hate like OoT and it's image has taken a beating because of post-TSW square whoring it out mercilessly
Westbrick posted... Sure, he's welcome to his opinion. He's a big boy, he can defend his own opinion if he wants to.
I did defend it. My position is that space is cool, but overhyped. Basically the Final Fantasy VII of natural science.
And I didn't mean to start an argument! I was just commenting on all the gargling over black holes, which I found curious.
Right, you did defend yourself. And you don't need people coming in going "hey, stop picking on him." Like I said, you're a big boy (or girl, I don't know).
I don't know why you couldn't understand why a person would find the mechanics of a black hole fascinating. It seems pretty obvious.
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Ayuyu posted... Everything is interesting, space just a tad more, because it's so mysterious and unknown.
Also because crazy **** happens there.
Why do you need to go out into space?
At this moment, something like trillions of neutrinos are passing through your body near the speed of light. And not just your body! They'll go on to pass right through the center of earth afterward, or perhaps some of them have come out of the center of earth. It's a nice gift that the sun sends you and that the atmosphere doesn't want to block out.
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