'08 Jun 11 ~ Guest Contribution - Stephen J. Crothers
The notion of black holes voraciously gobbling up matter, twisting space-time into contortions that trap light, stretching the unwary into long spaghetti-like strands as they fall inward to ultimately collide and merge with an infinitely dense point-mass singularity, has become a mantra of the scientific community, so much so that even primary school children know about the sinister black hole, waiting patiently, like the Roman child’s Hannibal, for an opportunity to abduct the unruly and the misbehaved. There are almost daily reports of scientists claiming black holes again found here and there.... [More...]
Black Holes, Unicorns, and All That Stuff
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Re: Black Holes, Unicorns, and All That Stuff
Even having already read Stephen's excellent debunking of the feared black hole, I couldn't help laughing at the vision of two black holes in a massless universe... No wonder the lonely bastards feel attracted to eachother... ROFL.
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Re: Black Holes, Unicorns, and All That Stuff
This video really made me laugh, this guy (Richard Carrier) is like a Used Car salesman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6FQdyHUXwc
But this is the line of talk I've seen when Black holes come up, Its like a cake, putting icing on it, then patching it up more, and a little more here and there... until its a big blob that isn't even recognized as a cake anymore. Heck you cant even eat it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6FQdyHUXwc
But this is the line of talk I've seen when Black holes come up, Its like a cake, putting icing on it, then patching it up more, and a little more here and there... until its a big blob that isn't even recognized as a cake anymore. Heck you cant even eat it.
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Re: Black Holes, Unicorns, and All That Stuff
Yup. Talks fast, talks crap, name-drops, and totally misrepresents the views of those whose names he drops (Aristotle, Paul, etc).SciRPG wrote:This video really made me laugh, this guy (Richard Carrier) is like a Used Car salesman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6FQdyHUXwc
But this is the line of talk I've seen when Black holes come up, Its like a cake, putting icing on it, then patching it up more, and a little more here and there... until its a big blob that isn't even recognized as a cake anymore. Heck you cant even eat it.
Or, as Steve Earle put it: 'It's called Snake Oil y'all, and it's been around for a very long time'.
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I will follow the great Way alone
and fear nothing but being sidetracked.
The great Way is simple
but people delight in complexity.
Tao Te Ching, 53.
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