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Originally posted by Metallicus
reply to post by canucks555
Since nothing can escape a black hole...not even light.
The idea that they create anything in our universe is unlikely.
My theory is that dark matter is simply matter that vibrates at a rate that us undetectable to use at this time. Much like light and sound that is outside of the range of our human senses.
Originally posted by NorEaster
I've been doing some looking into both black holes and dark matter/energy lately, and I was actually surprised to discover just how little anyone knows about either. What I really found to be astounding is that no one (according to every legitimate scientific source that exists) has ever seen a black hole, or even the lack of photons in the center of a galaxy that would indicate the presence of a black hole. The inability for photons to escape the gravity field of a black hole is not a net ramification that has ever been observed. It's a net ramification that has only ever existed on a physics blackboard.
Spacetime - the concept - may or may not exist as real, since it's solely based on the theoretical notion that the spatial trajectory creates the event trajectory - i.e. movement causes time to emerge. This concept is beginning to reveal itself as seriously flawed, and possibly fatally so. If this ends up being the case, then the entire paradigm that bases the concept of black holes, dark matter, dark energy and the Big Bang in general, will have to be scrapped.
Oh, and dark matter is another math blackboard supposition. Cosmologists have noticed the presence of what Einstein labeled the Cosmological Constant (without ever suggesting what it is or what it could be other than to insist that "something" is preventing gravity from collapsing the Big Bang universe model, so this matter "constant" must exist) and it has since evolved as a concept to become dark matter. Dark energy is the effect that dark matter has (as is the case with normal matter and energy and how that relationship works) so it's pretty unlikely that black holes - if they actually exist as more than the "required" mass density to explain why a galaxy center has such a powerful gravitational field - have anything at all to do with dark matter, other than the fact that they could color coordinate with each other without a phone call before showing up at a party. Black being the new (and old) black, and all.edit on 7/8/2013 by NorEaster because: (no reason given)
This concept is beginning to reveal itself as seriously flawed, and possibly fatally so. If this ends up being the case, then the entire paradigm that bases the concept of black holes, dark matter, dark energy and the Big Bang in general, will have to be scrapped.
Oh, and dark matter is another math blackboard supposition. Cosmologists have noticed the presence of what Einstein labeled the Cosmological Constant (without ever suggesting what it is or what it could be other than to insist that "something" is preventing gravity from collapsing the Big Bang universe model, so this matter "constant" must exist)
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but this isn't right. I think you're getting confused between dark matter and dark energy.
Originally posted by NorEaster
Oh, and dark matter is another math blackboard supposition. Cosmologists have noticed the presence of what Einstein labeled the Cosmological Constant (without ever suggesting what it is or what it could be other than to insist that "something" is preventing gravity from collapsing the Big Bang universe model, so this matter "constant" must exist) and it has since evolved as a concept to become dark matter. Dark energy is the effect that dark matter has (as is the case with normal matter and energy and how that relationship works)
Originally posted by canucks555
No external text link... Random thought..
Sorry if this has been asked before..
I just thought that we don't know squat about either one, maybe there's a correlation..
you know..so much energy and such..weird things start happenin..
Originally posted by NorEaster
I've been doing some looking into both black holes and dark matter/energy lately, and I was actually surprised to discover just how little anyone knows about either.
What I really found to be astounding is that no one (according to every legitimate scientific source that exists) has ever seen a black hole
or even the lack of photons in the center of a galaxy that would indicate the presence of a black hole.
Spacetime - the concept - may or may not exist as real, since it's solely based on the theoretical notion that the spatial trajectory creates the event trajectory - i.e. movement causes time to emerge.
Cosmologists have noticed the presence of what Einstein labeled the Cosmological Constant (without ever suggesting what it is or what it could be other than to insist that "something" is preventing gravity from collapsing the Big Bang universe model, so this matter "constant" must exist) and it has since evolved as a concept to become dark matter.
It depends if they are "feeding" or not. If they aren't "feeding" the only sign we might have of their existence could be stars revolving around them.
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
Not to sound obtuse.... but isn't the inability to see a black hole kinda the point? No light escapes and all that jazz.
"This is the first chance we've had to witness such an event in nearly 40 years of monitoring the galactic center, so this is a rare privilege," said P. Chris Fragile, an astrophysicist at the College of Charleston who works on computer simulations of the cloud's fall. The phenomenon, he said, "will be one of the most carefully observed astronomical events ever."
Originally posted by Erno86
I also speculate...that before the Big Bang, the entire matter of the universe --- was concentrated into one super-massive BH --- with the resulting Big Bang, along with the help of antimatter, brought about the physical nature of our universe; including dark matter.