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Possible Hole in Black Holes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the through-the-looking-glass dept.

jd writes "Researchers have found what they believe may be a MECO (Magnetic, Eternally Collapsing Object) inside of a quasar. MECOs are rivals to black hole theory and involve plasmas that never reach the state of being a singularity. The most obvious differences between them are that MECOs have a magnetic field and do not have an event horizon. The problem lies in that the Universe cannot have both MECOs and black holes — it can only have one or the other. If this object truly is a MECO, then black holes do not exist. Anywhere. (Furthermore, this would require Professor Hawking to return a year's subscription to Private Eye and give Professor Thorne a year's subscription to Penthouse.) On the other hand, if this thing isn't a MECO, it's behaving very very oddly for a black hole."

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  1. dear forum by marklar1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I never thought it would happen to me, a regular guy attending a small midwestern college...but the other night I was sitting at home playing UT and this MECO

  2. Re:Why... by Klaidas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, it's times like this, when I start thinking, like, "Who are we? WHERE are we?"
    I mean, we don't know if all the universe has some bounds, some end. If it has, where does it end? What's behind it? Or if doesn't, how come that's possible?.. Etc, etc.

  3. Re:Errr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > Franz Kafka: The Nostradamus of the post 9/11 United States

    Please try to avoid talking about Kafka and that worthless French fuckwit in the same breath. Did *any* of his predictions work out in the end?

  4. Re:The third option by buswolley · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Didn't we recently hear that Einstein is wrong...

    4:00 AM and I will not look up the article.

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  5. MECO MECO by Caspian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nurse! o/~

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  6. Re:Why... by burndive · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sorry, but I feel the compulsion to pick apart your sig.

    Human being (n.): A genetically human, genetically distinct, functioning organism.

    So since clones aren't genetically distinct, they only constitute a single being? What about identical twins? What about conjoined twins?

    "Functioning" could be interpreted to mean absolutely anything. Does it exclude a fetus who is dependent on its mother? What if it's still breast feeding? What if it still lives in its parents' basement? What about humans that aren't "functioning" properly, are they no longer beings?

    If I spliced a pig gene into someone's DNA, they're not a "human being"?

    Honestly, it's pointless to try to "define" personhood in any way that does not directly involve God.

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