[SteveH]

Interesting, thanks for sharing

[equaviator]

There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.

[Getready]

From what little I have been reading...I have heard that black holes may be very very dense neutron stars or something else very dense...so all these theoretical calcs might be trying to analyze the tbings which dont really exist....speaking of unknowns, what caused the so-called cosmic egg...and what caused it to “exlode”? I am guessing that we dont have a truly testable scientific answer
..cuz humans didnt exist at that time (was there “time” anyway)?, and could not observe the events .also the physics we know today did not exist at the moment of the beginning and cannot be applied to that event....no?

[poconopundit]

The author is talented and should definitely write a book and appear on Coast-to-Coast AM. But perhaps the finest scientific research on black holes is being conducted in Italy: Are Black Holes The Key To Interstellar Travel? There’s good news and bad news for anyone who hoped that black holes could hold the secret to interstellar travel. Scientists put forth a new theory this week that black holes could be a doorway through spacetime, but you would be unlikely to survive the experience. For a long time, scientists have believed that any matter that enters into a black hole would be destroyed, the gravity inside being so dense that the laws of physics no longer apply. But that may not be true. According to The Independent, scientists at the University of Valencia propose that at the heart of a black hole "is a very small spherical surface" that could be a "wormhole" through time and space. Unfortunately, any traveller would become “spaghetiffied” - their body stretched so thin in order to pass through the doorway that they would resemble a spaghetti noodle or piece of string. Dr Gonzalo Olmo said, "Our theory naturally resolves several problems in the interpretation of electrically-charged black holes.” .... * * * I find Dr. Gonzalo's powers of analysis absolutely amazing. Imagine: astro-physicians say the closest black hole is 27,015 light years away!

[exDemMom]

I wonder how one assigns statistical significance to a single set of observations? And how do they really know what they are looking at?

This reminds me of why I went into biochemistry. Certainly, there is less to question about what is being observed, and there usually is never any trouble getting sufficient sample sizes to run statistics.

[Jack Hammer]

If Einstein was right, how do we explain starships that go warp ten....?

[broken_arrow1]

Oh, the noise, the noise....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsMlsDgMXJM

[super7man]

OK, I get all that. But how do I get my wife to be on time for church?