Black holes

This one!!

http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/

A supernova actually is something that happens. Ever heard the term "red giant" or "white dwarf"? That is generally used to describe the qualitative characteristics of a star. In it's different life stages.

The exact definition of a super nova:

The explosion caused when a massive star, at least 8 times the Sun's mass, dies (exhausts its fuel) and collapses. If the original star is less than 20 solar masses, the supernova will leave behind a neutron star. Heavier stars will collapse into black holes. Supernova explosions are among the most energetic events in the Universe, and they forge the heavy elements such as carbon, oxygen, and silicon.

www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/pictures/2003/0702pulsarspeed/0702ssu_glossary.htm

I'll volunteer when im like 85 to be sucked into a black hole and tell everyone what is going on when im getting torn apart... maybe ill become some super powered 85 year old or go back in time to when i was 20 again :)

that would be so cool if that worked, once i turned like 40 or just felt too old id go back to the black hole and go back to 10 then go through like 40 or so then keep doing it again

so i just read this entire thread.  crazy stuff man, this is so interesting.  i cant even comprehend most of this stuff but its so crazy to think about.

I just read a book by Michio Kaku that guy is insanely smart and also has the ability to make things understandable to average people. like me, for example.

Gravity isnt really a force its the illusion of a force, now stay with me. Gravity bends time and space around a center mass. For example its like placing a heavy rock on the center of a bed sheet and then giving a marble some velocity around the rock. From above it will appear to be attracted to the rock by some unknown force... A black hole is so dence and massive that the bed sheet has streched so far that it connects with another rock on the other side creating a worm hole. Einstein theroised that nothing could survive traveling through a worm hole because the center of the worm hole would have infinite gravity thus crushing anything that traveled through into atoms. However nature never deals in infintencies. Since the black hole is spinning at a tremendous rate. (about a million miles an hour) the centripital acceleration and thus force keeps the middle of the worm hole from colapsing.

- That was super paraphrased because I dont have the book on me and dont quote me on the numbers but it was very intresting to read.

If you are truly intrested in theroitical physics and the cosmos and dont just want to talk out you ass about the universe here are some required reading

The Universe in a nutshell and The Breif History of time, by Steven Hawking

Visions, Hyperspace, and Parallel Worlds, by Michio Kaku

There is a lot more but those are the ones I enjoyed expecially Vision that book was great. Another really intersting topic is Genetics and Nanotechnology which he discusses.

Oh ya to understand that bed sheet comparision you have to realize that Kaku belives and has some theroitical "proof" that there are actually Inifinite number of Universies and about 11 deminsions, dont ask me to explain that one...

wow what a mystery

My IQ just went up +2

if i owned a black hole, it would suck... ahaha but seriously, i think it'd be funny to like take a video recorder shoot it into the black hole then pull it out.. just to see what happens.. and to be pirfectly honest i think that black holes are just a quicker way to die... nothing special, just a chink of condensed matter.. and anythign that gets sucked into it is crashed horribly.. its sweet how black holes can bend matter and stuff, i remember seen a picture of like a star getting sucked into one it looked sweet

it looked something like this:

i say everyone should watch this.. maybe it will answer un-answered questions...

unless its a book or something stupid like that

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. both are equally firghtening."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all."
-Albert Einstein

"In the past decade, more sceintific knowledge has been created than in all of human history."
-Michio Kaku, circa 1997

"The age of discovery in science is comming to a close, opening up an age of mastery."
-Kaku

Heres a few quotes that I like and think apply at least a little to the subject. I think it is so crazy to even try to understan black holes and space and time. Did you know that a watch on the moon will tick faster than one on earth. Time isnt linear its more like a river winding through space. Astronauts traveling at near light speed will age only 9 years for about 11 thousand on eart. What? fucking nuts. I cant wait for this century...

*"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
-Arthur C. Clarke

Sorry about the misquote, I think "terrifying" is a much better word...