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Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar
Mark Eymer observes: "From the Space.com article: 'Emil Mottola of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina suggest that instead of a star collapsing into a pinpoint of space with virtually infinite gravity, its matter is transformed into a spherical void surrounded by "an extremely durable form of matter never before experienced on Earth."' While these objects may abound in the universe, they also say that our entire universe may reside within a giant gravastar." This new theory attempts to fill holes in the currently accepted concept of the "black hole".
the /dev/null of the universe!
But can they make a new non-stick pan surface out of it?
Will it chase your ship around yelling out I hunger ? :P
just = (My)Opinion.toCents();
after all, all of the bug reports submitted to Microsoft have to be stored somewhere
This new theory attempts to fill holes in the currently accepted concept of the "black hole".
Ha Ha Ha! Your puny theory will never escape from the irresistible gravitic pull of this horrible pun...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
"Dude... what if, like... our whole universe... is just one tiny atom... in the toenail of some giant dude?"
"Woah, dude."
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
"So what you are saying is that an atom inside our fingernail..."
"That atom could contain a teeny, tiny universe."
"Woah!.................Can you sell me some pot?"
Title of the post comes from one of Feinman's books. God you must be such a geek to have read those. :-)
Feinman talks with an old lady who won't listen to anything he says, she is convinced that the earth really rests on the back of a giant turtle. When he asks what that rests on, she replies something like "Buddy, it's turtles all the way down."
-Tyler
tjw19@columbia.edu
Now Disney is going to have to refilm "The Black Hole"! For some reason I think that "The Spherical Void" just will not be as much of a hit with the little ones.
its matter is transformed into a spherical void surrounded by "an extremely durable form of matter never before experienced on Earth."
Isle 3, womens's underwear. 5 for $2.00 - durable, breathable, washable, wearable.
"...its matter is transformed into a spherical void surrounded by 'an extremely durable form of matter never before experienced on Earth...'"
one pound of which weighs over TEN THOUSAND pounds!
The last thing that gets sucked into the gravastar is the gravastar itself, which results in the formation of what scientists call a kleinstar, a four-dimensional construct where the inside is the outside (and vice versa). This neatly avoids any issues arising from the concept of having the universe contained within something that is itself within the universe, by moving the whole discussion into the realm of mathematical topology -- which nobody understands, but which we're all too embarassed to admit.
Remember to stock up on Klein bottles now, so you'll have something to drink out of once the kleinstar forms. ;-)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
I can convince myself that I am capable of imagining time going on forever (i probably cannot) but I cannot convince myself that time has already occured for an infinite amount of time.
When I try to think of time having already existed forever, then, I start to think about how some random configuration of particles that looked exactly like me has randomly been in this same spot, doing the same things I am doing...
WORSE, that this thing that looks and sounds like me and has the same name, has already done some of the things I've been meaning to do, and then I don't feel like doing them, cause A, I already did them, and B, I'll just have to do them again.
At which point the only thing I care to think about is the infinite other versions of me that have existed through time, sitting on a Lazy Boy recliner watching Cartoon Network all day, and give him a double thumbs up. Cause, in the end, that's what it's really all about. And that would be the clincher folks, undeniable proof that I am right.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
... that if you do enough navel-gazing, you will turn yourself inside out.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
... a lot of people thought Einstein and Newton were crazy ...
Newton did go crazy, from (among other alchemical things) the mercury he ingested.
-kgj
-kgj
Gravastar. What is that all about? Is it good or is it whack?
It's a minivan. You've been skipping over the commercials again, haven't you?
I am Gravastar! Beware I live! Run! Run! Run!
I am Gravastar! I hunger! Run, Coward!
Run! Run! Run!
I guess Steven Hawking has to cancel that Playboy subscription.
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who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.