Black Holes in Chicago!

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Marc   Site Admin Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:18 pm Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 108 Location: Ireland	Black Holes in Chicago! Before anybody gets worried that the Windy City is about to be engulfed by a black hole let me clarify: Adler Planetarium is exhibiting a new space simulation Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity from March. While describing black holes is usually quite difficult the visual aspect of this presentation should lend itself to a better explanation of the phenomenon. Those who love scientific accuracy will be pleased to hear that all the simulations for the show were carried out by physicists at the University of Illinois. The narration is done by a fellow Irishman, Liam Neeson, (clearly they realised I had a busy schedule and didn't bother to call me first ) Anyway, while it sounds good we'd really like to hear what astronomy buffs in Chicago have to say about it. So, if anybody gets around to seeing this show do let us know what you think.
sdhobbs   Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:25 pm Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 19	Anyone considered why black holes can be detected by other means than visible light? Extend Red shift theory for objects travelling at incredible speeds away from us, what happens when all light is shifted below the red end of the visible light spectrum... where next? Infa red and microwave... suprisingly accurate don't you think and nothing to do with light having mass or being in any way affected by gravity! Also consider this: If by nuclear fission huge amounts of energy is released by breaking massively strong sub-nuclear bonds, so how the hell is energy released and not consumed by reversing the process? Who the hell is to say stars are powered by fusion... under great pressure and massive temperature created the centers could be like one massive soup of sub nuclear particles almost like a super element containing billions of billions of fissionable particles which are lost just as in nuclear fission by escaping the "soup" of gravity. Upon hitting a certain point many are held in a "secondary" cooler layer mainly as H and He type groups which then get hit causing more radiation and forcing the energy out into space, maybe fusion is not the cause at all but in fact fission and any fusion on the outer surfaces is fueled by this "super fissionary soup" below and hence the spectral properties! Extend what we know about adding sub-nucleic particles together to the limit of near infinity under massive pressure due to gravity of their very mass and is it impossible this "super soup" could lay at the heart of all stars, technically just one massive massive element consisting of near infinite atomic mass and emitting massive amounts of radiation! Just a thought. After-all "fusion" does seem to actually defy all the other rules otherwise. Obviously the fusion itself is a result not a cause and absorbs energy not releases it by sheer common sense alone.
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