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Space-Time Loops May Explain Black Holes
SPACE.com ^ | 10 July 2013 Time: 07:00 AM ET | Clara Moskowitz,

Posted on 07/11/2013 8:30:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A black hole is created when a huge star runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion and collapses under its own gravity. The star's outer layers are expelled, and its core falls in on itself, with the pull of gravity becoming ever stronger, until what's left is the core's mass condensed into an extremely small area. According to general relativity, this area is a single point of space-time, and the density there is infinitely large — a singularity.

But most scientists think singularities don't really exist, that they're just a sign that equations have broken down and fail to adequately describe reality. Loop quantum gravity appears to be an improvement on general relativity in describing black holes because it doesn't produce a singularity.

The idea is based on the notion of "quantization," which breaks an entity up into discrete pieces.Whilequantum mechanics says atoms exist in quantized, discrete states, loop quantum gravity posits that space-time itself is made of quantized, discrete bits, in the form of tiny, one-dimensional loops.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: stringtheory
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To: BenLurkin

My wife went to the freezer and took out the carton of vanilla ice cream. There was an empty space in the carton. She asked me about it. I explained to her that it was a “White Hole”. The ice cream had collapsed upon itself and formed a singularity. She threw the ice cream scoop at me and told me to warp on over to the grocery store and get some more ice cream. I think she might be Klingon.


41 posted on 07/11/2013 9:58:42 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: mad_as_he$$

That was 1992.


42 posted on 07/11/2013 10:05:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: dagogo redux

Joe Biden’s AR-15 Gun Advice For Women “get a shotgun” Skewered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2I5LS08H8&feature=fvwp


43 posted on 07/11/2013 10:12:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: null and void

Agreed....some truths just jump out you


44 posted on 07/11/2013 11:41:16 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Abathar

“Their wrong.”


Their wrong what?


45 posted on 07/11/2013 11:46:53 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: null and void

bookmark


46 posted on 07/11/2013 12:02:29 PM PDT by bigheadfred (barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
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To: Nachum

I like that idea.

It is so apropos that I would never be able to resist making that change.


47 posted on 07/11/2013 12:09:38 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Abathar

We all do that every once in a while.


48 posted on 07/11/2013 1:08:26 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: RipSawyer

My bff used to pontificate (when were teens) that we were in a mental institution and living a common fantasy while staring at a wall. I cant swear she is wrong.


49 posted on 07/11/2013 1:11:44 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: blueunicorn6

Hahahhaaa


50 posted on 07/11/2013 1:12:31 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: RipSawyer
My theory is that the earth is the insane asylum for the universe. UFO’s prove that, they just show up when they have another load of insane people...these people are prone to go into politics and that explains laws that run into thousands of pages long..they really don't know how to run the countries.. I think there should be no law that runs more than 3 sheets of regular paper, double spaced. If it takes more than that something ireally wrong with the law written
51 posted on 07/11/2013 2:34:09 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: I want the USA back

Space is something otherwise every thing would be here.


52 posted on 07/11/2013 2:36:40 PM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; backwoods-engineer; ...

Space Loops, a great idea for a breakfast cereal, or it would have been in 1965. Thanks BenLurkin.


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53 posted on 07/11/2013 7:35:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Abathar

No wonder you didn’t win the Stevenson Award (the real thing is the Stevenson Prize, but anyway).


54 posted on 07/11/2013 7:37:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: BenLurkin

But we will see what we see when we see what we will see.


55 posted on 07/11/2013 7:42:24 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: goat granny

You’re really smart for a Granny Goat!


56 posted on 07/11/2013 8:17:47 PM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: Bratch

“The past sure is tense” Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)


57 posted on 07/11/2013 8:23:59 PM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: RipSawyer

:O) TY


58 posted on 07/12/2013 1:39:58 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: Phlap

Remember, wherever you go, there you are.

59 posted on 04/24/2014 1:19:05 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

They do think that the black holes are real, but the idea that these black holes are singularities does not jibe with conventional notions of physics.


60 posted on 04/24/2014 1:20:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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