Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Second Black Hole Misconception
Now on to the second misconception that black holes contain worm holes to outer reaches of space. Worm holes, unfortunately, are purely theory. A far-fetched theory at that. While it would be undoubtedly cool to enter a black hole and be transported to other parts of the universe, thus allowing us to even travel to other galaxies and solar systems (as this is recognized as an infeasible notion, even if we were allowed to travel around the speed of light which is seemingly impossible, the closest galaxy to ours is Andromeda, which is some 2 or 3 million light years away (note that one light year is about 5,878,625,373,183.61 regular miles), and at this speed would take us from earth approximately 2 million years), they simply don't exist to our knowledge. I recently watched Event Horizon, which plays somewhat with this idea. The core of a ship creates an imitation black hole to use for accelerated speed, although they don't know exactly "where" it travels to. It turns out that it has ripped open a whole in our dimension and has entered hell. This entire movie was based off an idea some crazy astronomer thought up, and has yet to be proved in any manner. Good one.
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