Posted on 03/10/2009 3:45:41 PM PDT by TaraP
Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe. New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big. That's a hundred thousand tredagrams, and you'll never get the chance to use that word in relation to anything else.
Black holes are regions of space where matter is so dense that regular physics just breaks down. You might think physical laws are immutable - you can't get out of gravitational attraction the same way you can get out of a speeding ticket - but beyond a certain level laws which determine how matter is regulated are simply overloaded and material is crushed down into something that's less an object and more a region of altered space.
While there's theoretically no upper limit on how big a black hole can be, there are hard limits on how big they could have become by now. The universe has only existed for a finite amount of time, and even the most voracious black hole can only suck in matter at a certain rate. The bigger the black hole, the bigger the gravitational field and the faster it can pull in matter - but that same huge gravitational gradient means that the same matter can release huge amounts of radiation as it falls, blasting other matter further away.
Based on this self-regulating maximum rate, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts, and the European Southern Observatory, Chile, have calculated an upper limit for these mega-mammoth masses. Fifty billion suns, that's 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kg, otherwise known as "ridiculously stupidly big" and triple the size of the largest observed black hole, OJ 287.
There are potential problems with this calculation. Based as it is on the radiation outflow from a black hole, new discoveries could change this estimate - though only from "insanely massive" to "ridiculously ginormous."
I don't, because I never seem to be in the right one where I hit the Powerball, and the Fred Thompson / Sarah Palin ticket wins in a landslide.
Cheers!
The answer is still the same:
There is no evidence of notable loss of life from cancer in recorded history, prior th the industrial revolution.
Now go play ‘til mom gets home.
It's worse than that. According to certain physical theories, it is possible to have a finite volume without having a boundary. Sort of like earth having a finite area, but no edge to fall off of despite having a finite area.
IOW, even "the void" has a limit. There is no such thing as "nothingness on and on."
That isn’t what you claimed before - you stated that cancer did not exist till the industrial revolution.
If you aren’t going to be truthful please don’t speak to me in the future.
The total amount of sunlight reaching our planet must be diminishing slightly every day, because ... “A trillion comets orbit the sun. The gravel that surrounds them appears, should it hit our atmosphere, as a shower of meteors. The Earth gains a ton in weight every hour from their dust.”
My thought is that the added mass continuously increases the Earth’s relative distance from the sun.
Quote is from page 218 of “Darwin’s Ghost” by Steve Jones.
If you look real closely you can see its event horizon
GGG never claimed such.
Grow a set, wigger loser.
Go get your diaper changed, you stink up the place.
Then why does is post articles nearly exclusively from young earth creationist sources like AIG and CRI?
Again with the personal insults. Seeing as that I have never been rude or insulting to you why are you being so to me?
Then too, the sun’s mass must be continually decreasing because the sun is releasing energy and ... E = MC^2
And that decrease in Sun’s mass would also result in an increasing distance between sun and Earth.
Or AlGore.
Me too. thanks
The Sun’s mass is decreasing at a very slow rate - so slowly that the Sun will have burned out before the Earth moves very far away from it.
You’ve never been anything but rude, insulting, and insipid.
I am sure that you will be more than will to provide examples of such behavior on my part so that everyone else reading this will have proof.
It is hard to fathom the density of these things sometimes. Isn’t a neutron star so dense, that a teaspoon of it would weigh as much as Mt. Everest??
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