Translation: "Something weird is going on there and we don't know squat about it!"
It's the weird stuff and the unknown which makes any science interesting (and keeps its practitioners humble). We sure don't know as much about the universe as we'd like to. Of course, the search for knowledge itself is key: the journey is almost as important as the destination.
To: MozartLover; Joan912; NovemberCharlie; snowfox; Dawgsquat; viligantcitizen; theDentist; ...
2 posted on
05/31/2003 9:39:33 PM PDT by
petuniasevan
(Wonders of the Universe)
To: petuniasevan
WOW!!! AWESOME!!!!
To: petuniasevan
So cool. Thanks.
To: petuniasevan
Love the space art - thanks!
To: petuniasevan
The aspect of black holes that I can't seem to grasp is that it's got such great gravitational pull that nothing escapes it. Fine. Then what about all these gasses and radiation plumes jetting out from the center? Shouldn't these, too, be consumed by the hole, or is it that they travel at such a velocity that they are somehow emitted before reaching the event horizon?
And can I use that in court when I try to explain why I was traveling 74 in a 55 zone because of an unexpected emission of some sort due to my singularity?
17 posted on
06/02/2003 8:54:53 AM PDT by
theDentist
(So. This is Virginia.... where are all the virgins?)
To: petuniasevan; SunkenCiv
Am curious . . . how many . . . what percentage of such . . . what . . . pincacles of streaming gas from the center . . .
what percentage of the found such are pointing our direction vs perpendicular to our line of sight and how could we tell?
18 posted on
08/10/2009 9:36:26 AM PDT by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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