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   LLeRay said, 10 months ago

   Information passes out of Black Holes, doesn’t it? I forget what Stephen Hawking figured out about them.

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   deadheadzan said, 10 months ago

   Yeah, black holes are more complicated than just sucking matter into a void. Don’t know any details, however.

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   Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

   Information doesn’t pass out - Hawking Radiation may pass out - there’s some controversy over those parts of Hawking’s work.

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   chromosome said, 10 months ago

   Maybe Stephen Hawking could figure out how banks operate.

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   LateToTheGame said, 10 months ago

   I believe the information that is gathered about black holes is taken by observing the visible region around it. For example, the rotational speed of the accretion disk. I could be wrong though; it’s been a while since my college astronomy class.

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   Tom Ciborowski said, 10 months ago

   Hi, folks:
   Here’s a rather different web site to check out regarding black holes, dark matter, etc: www.speed-light.info/
   Cheers!

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   dtroutma said, 10 months ago

   Light can’t escape the gravity of a black hole, kinda’ like truth escaping the lips of Limbaugh or the “radical right”. “Brief History of Time” by Hawking and “The Elegant Universe” are good books on quantum physics for the lay person by the way.

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   Corosive Frog said, 10 months ago

   “What are the other characteristics?”

   Sooky Rottweiler replies;
   It sucks!

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   deadheadzan said, 10 months ago

   Tom- thanks for the interesting link. It’s cool that in the Koran, it was said that angels traveled in one day the distance of the speed of light.

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    LLeRay said, 10 months ago

    So in the Koran, angels are slower than light? That makes them corporeal objects and not spirit? Interesting.

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    WillBerry said, 10 months ago

    Earth to dtroutma - Government is ALSO a Black Hole! What does that say about The Great Impostor?

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    Ira Nayman said, 10 months ago

    For 25 or so years, Hawking insisted that nothing could escape black holes. However, if that was true, the information carried by the material that entered the black holes would be lost, going against some conservation law or other. A couple of years ago, Hawking admitted that he was wrong, that in addition to radiation, black holes had to allow information back into the universe. Or, something like that.

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    LateToTheGame said, 10 months ago

    Will: “The Great Imposter”, so far as I’m aware, is living obliviously happy in the Dallas area. Why bring him into this?