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Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist
SpaceAdmiral writes "Nature reports that, according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, 'It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist.' George Chapline argues that the collapse of massive stars is more likely to lead to dark energy stars. These dark energy stars behave somewhat like a black hole outside of the surface, but the negative gravity inside could cause matter to 'bounce back out again.'"
I've been fooled by Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock all these years. DOH!
And I guess you are going to tell me that fairies don't exist next, right? Wake up and smell the coffee, my friend.
I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.
Theres always someone who has a diferent theory.
On the other hand though...
Tell someone there are a million stars in the sky and they'll believe you...
Tell them paint is wet and...
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Please don't use the word "paradigm shift". It could cause another .com implosion.
I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.
I contend that ass holes don't exist!
Oh yeah? Proof by contradiction; you.
You know MC Hawking isn't going to stand for this shit.
Apparently they look something like this
FACT: while my girlfriend was working at starbucks, every one of her male coworkers was gay.
-mkb
The odd thing is... it will be quite impossible to prove or disprove this either way for... quite a long time.
At least until a space cruise ship christened the "Titanic" gets too close to that blackish.. hole-ish thing while taking a shortcut, in about a thousand years.
It would have been easier to say "torroid pieces of dough"....
If you can read this sig - the bitch fell off.
Before, I had the chance of getting sucked through a blackhole and spit out into a sister universe in some array of energy and mass, but, now I get bounced back in the form of Positron? Sweet. Then I acquire the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, and destruction of the Decepticons will be for sure! But seriously, I think this guy just has a vendetta against Rush for writing a song about Cygnus X-1.
Uhm, and how do i travel through time without black holes? Explain this!
"but I still wouldn't want to be near a collapsing star.." Man, tell me about it. I hate to be anywhere near Lindsay Lohan in a few months...
Yes, or to make it more accessible, instead of "torroid" you could say "doughnut-shaped."
You going to tell me that Terra isn't flat? That the humours don't control disease? That there are no dragons off the edge of the map? Puh-leeze.
This is why I make it a point to never listen to scientists. They change their minds too often. You'd think women would dominate science, considering their natural talents in that area.
http://xkcd.com/386/
Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?
The guy's not even crippled!
The earth sucks. QED
Have you ever seen a black hole?
I wasted my Saturday night in one.
KFG
George Chapline just called. Because he feared being on your dreadful 'quack' list, he retracted his theory.
I like your quantitative approach in establishing the scientific truth.
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
That's what they wanted you to think :P
or that's what she told you, when you caught her in bed with one of them. Wake up and smell the coffee my friend
Nothing costs nothing
Murky words, misspelled
Dark matter stars shed no light
Are we enlightened?
Ah yes the Babble fish argument, yes very powerfull, just like the wookie defence.
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Yes, I saw The Black Hole. Maximillian was the robot, and there was an evil scientist too. The black hole itself was totally visible from their space ship. Intense movie (for a 7 year old).
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Yes indeed, black is out. Grey is the new black. So, I suspect he's actually proposing grey holes? Or is it all grey matter?
Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?
You must be new here.
The University of Colorado's non-science-major course on Black Holes, ASTR 2030 (which I'm headed to in about 5 minutes), shows portions of Disney's "The Black Hole", citing it as "How Not To Make A Movie About Black Holes". A survey of "potential villians" at the beginning of class led to a near unanimous first response of "the composer".
Going back to school for entry-level jobs?
I contend that ass holes don't exist!
Would this be a situation where one can link to goatex and have it actually be Informative?
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Yes, one followed me around and often ate my homework when I was in school.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Layperson doesn't understand the cutting edge of physics and math. So they must be bozos.
I can forgive you that you might not be up on the latest theories flying around the theoretical physics community. Really, I can.
But what kind of idiot are you that you don't understand the basic process of science??? Were you raised in the bible belt, and homeschooled on creationism??? Did you sleep through grade school science class???
Scientists put forward theories. Lots of them. Many are wrong. Those get disproven. The correct ones win, and then can get replaced by theories that are even closer to the truth.
On the cutting edge of knowlege, it's a normal and necessary part of the process to see many theories bouncing about at the same time. The point is that even the wrong ideas help us get closer to the right one.
Please blame this on Monday. Cause if you can't, you might have to face the fact that you're not just a layperson, but a really dumb one.
...is that the Professor who had the bet with Hawking over Black Holes has to give his year's subscription to Penthouse back.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
No no no, you're being silly. They LOOK like black holes, they BEHAVE like black holes, they are in all ways indistinguishable from black holes, but they're really cosmic space ducks.
Silly Buttons.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
We know of at least one black hole whose existence has been repeatedly verified by unsuspecting eyes: Goatse.
"The first thing to realize about black holes, [yourruinreverse] says, is that they are not black.\nIt is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking, holes either, but it is easiest if you don't try to realize that until a little later, after you've realized that everything you've realized up to that moment is not true."
[Adapted from Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless]
JeR
You mean they told you that they loved you, but it turned out they were just using you for sex?
...
More or less. I guess I should have figured it out for myself
-- Kirk kept shouting, "Oh Janice, oh Janice!"
-- Spock only did it every seven years.
-kgj
-kgj
Ob. Bugs Bunny:
"The earth, she's a round like a orange."
"She's flat like a pancake."
"No, she's round like my head."
*WHAM*
"She's flat like your head."
I wonder that the flat earth people never picked up on the post-hit-with-a-mallet-head shape; it solves the problem of round eclipses, and still gives you a flat edge to fall off of.
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
I just have to ask: If you believe there is no blackhole, does that make you an aholist?
JADBP
Wouldn't it be so much easier for y'all to just admit that God made everything, and that Jesus is shootin' around up there like the Silver Surfer, pickin' up all the broken bits? ;)
If teaching you that plurals don't take apostrophes, then yes, common knowledge would be informative.
"Like it or not, people expect science to be exact and correct even though it often isn't."
;)
You are right. That is what religion is for.
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and that was the error.
-pyrrho
He should at least be forced to go over to Hawking's house and hold the pictures up for him.
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