2010-12-07, 03:19 PM
The one thing to note is science is never finite, and every day things are discovered or pondered that question what we know, may know, think we know, or don't know. I saw this the other day on kotaku, and the fact that scientists can say they've captured anti-hydrogen is perplexing; for one thing how would one even begin trying to explain that to a layman? Hell, I myself don't know how to understand it outside of it being something pretty big.
I've never been one to try and tackle the matter of black holes, despite their nature which appeals to me in a lot of ways. To say that energy and mass are conserved, and they just transition from one another is thrown out the window with them. It does bring to mind a few arguments on the very manner of existence (if a black hole is the ultimate end, what was the ultimate beginning?), and this is just those black holes that form from the collapse of supermassive stars. What about the theory that at the center of each galaxy lies a supermassive black hole? It's astounding.
I've never been one to try and tackle the matter of black holes, despite their nature which appeals to me in a lot of ways. To say that energy and mass are conserved, and they just transition from one another is thrown out the window with them. It does bring to mind a few arguments on the very manner of existence (if a black hole is the ultimate end, what was the ultimate beginning?), and this is just those black holes that form from the collapse of supermassive stars. What about the theory that at the center of each galaxy lies a supermassive black hole? It's astounding.

