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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".
Bet aliens wanting to visit our Gravastar will be forced to be fingerprinted and have their pictures taken.
"an extremely durable form of matter never before experienced on Earth."
Maybe, just maybe, there is some of that matter on Mars! Imagine how cool it would be if the little rover could grind the surface of that matter and send us pictures, since nobody on Earth has ever seen it!
Here's hoping...
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
then, hey! we all need to send Darl our $699 ...
except that by no means was clinton a fiscal-conservative. His policies were severely hampered by the election of a republican house majority 2 years into his presidency.
Not fiscally conservative? He was the first US president in a damn long time to create a budget with a surplus (which the Republicans undermined by asking for more spending, BTW). He was the last one, too. Thank you Bush I hope the 500billion dollar deficit and 5 trillion dollar debt crush al-qaeda like they did the USSR! :P
That's a first... An AC posts a link to goatse, and he's modded "Funny" and not "Troll" or "Flamebait".
Maybe the intense gravity of a nearby black hole are distorting the mod's senses? Or is the world about to end?!
*Runs away*
Learn something new.
Wow, and i though by UID was worth noting. :)
Have you read my journal today?