Monday, April 23, 2018

Too Weird to Ponder. . Black Holes



- 2075  - Too Weird to Ponder.  .  Black Holes have so much mass and so much gravity that the escape velocity needed to get away from  them exceeds the speed of light.  Nothing escapes.  Time and space are curved so much they bend back on themselves.  Time stops.  Space shrinks to a dot.  This is too weird to comprehend, but , so is the whole Universe popping out of nothingness.

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-   The interesting thing about learning astronomy is that you keep running into these things that are too weird to ponder.  Black Holes can make your head hurt.  Black Holes have so much mass and so much gravity that the escape velocity needed to get away from  them exceeds the speed of light.  Nothing escapes.  Time and space are curved so much they bend back on themselves.  Time stops.  Space shrinks to a dot.
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-  Then there is space itself that we used to think was nothing.  Somehow it is a container without walls.  And we are inside it.  Now we learn that space seethes with enormous energy.  I thought it was a vacuum.  Yet, every second trillions of cubic lightyears of it get added to the Universe.  All appearing out of nothing.
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-  Light does not escape a Black Hole.  And, light does not escape from the edge of the Observerable Universe. Immense mass and gravity pulls light into a Black Hole.
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-   The expansion of space is accelerating and more stuff is going past the edge where it is so far away their light will never reach us.  The velocity of space expansion can exceed the speed of light.  The edge of the Universe appears as a Black Hole to us and we are living inside it.
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-  If space expands forever, eventually all the galaxies we see today will disappear beyond the edge.  Then the stars, then the planets, and we are left with a rarefied sea of atomic particles all separated by space.
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-  Black holes are formed by adding more and more mass to a star.  But, Black Holes are also formed by compressing mass into a smaller radius (space).  If the Sun were compressed into a radius of 3 kilometers with no change in mass it would become a Black Hole.
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-   If it is a function of radius what about the smallest fundamental particles, are they compressed so small that they are mini-Black Holes?  Maybe the Universe will end up a rarefied sea of mini- Black Holes.
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-  Then there is life.  Mother Nature seems to have a bigger imagination than we do.  We think Mother Nature must have been pretty smart.  But, She supposedly rose randomly from inert matter.  Supposedly 13 billion years ago carbon, oxygen and hydrogen got together and that same time later here we are trying to figure things out.  How did those dumb things get smarter than we are?
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-  Then there is time.  If it moves too fast it slows down to a stop.  If it feels too much gravity, like the edge of a Black Hole, it stops.  Before the Big Bang it supposedly was stopped because it did not exist.  It too formed out of nothing.
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-  Then there is consciousness.  Does this Universe exist only because we do?  If we were not here to observe it would it still be there?  We perceive our perceptions.
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-   We perceive a Full Moon only because electromagnetic energy reflects off its surface and bits of this electric and magnetic energy enters our eyes, causes chemical reactions in our retinas and sends tiny electrical signals to our brains.  Without the transfer of this energy would the Moon still be there?
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- Quantum Mechanics says that energy particle-waves are only statistical probabilities and until observational energy collapses the waves to create the particles according to the probabilities only to happen when we observe it.  So, are the particles on the Dark Side of the Moon still just waves?
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-  This is too weird to comprehend, but , so is the whole Universe popping out of nothingness.
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-  As the smart man, Isaac Newton, once said, our knowledge is but one small pebble on the beach with the whole ocean of the unknown out in front of us.
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