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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    When I was young I was intrigued by the concept of spagetti-isation.
    Originally posted by LostInBrussels View Post
    A lot of scientists believe in God, including Einstein. NO reason why science and God can't co-exist.
    Wait a minute. The Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster. It all becomes clear.

    I have unwittingly discovered the unifying theory.

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by SoupDragon View Post
    Intuitively, the idea that mass can take up no space is silly. This being the case, Einsteins equations would not break down because 'r' could never reach zero.

    As long as r is smaller than the event horizon, there is no way of telling...
    Now there's a poster that I didn't know we missed until he appeared!

    Hallo Soup Dragon!

    Can I be your friend?

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  • LostInBrussels
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
    Like I've said before, God seams more plausible than some so called scientific explanations.

    Do we pay these people?
    A lot of scientists believe in God, including Einstein. NO reason why science and God can't co-exist.

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  • gingerjedi
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    Originally posted by PerlOfWisdom View Post
    Physics has reached a dead end in many ways. Every time they don't know something, they invent a new particle, a new number of dimensions, imaginary time, invisible dark matter, undetectable dark energy, phlogiston, aether, continuous creation, flat earth, geocentricity .........
    Like I've said before, God seams more plausible than some so called scientific explanations.

    Do we pay these people?

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  • PerlOfWisdom
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    They don't know

    Physics has reached a dead end in many ways. Every time they don't know something, they invent a new particle, a new number of dimensions, imaginary time, invisible dark matter, undetectable dark energy, phlogiston, aether, continuous creation, flat earth, geocentricity .........

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  • Doggy Styles
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    When I was young I was intrigued by the concept of spagetti-isation.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by SoupDragon View Post
    Intuitively, the idea that mass can take up no space is silly. This being the case, Einsteins equations would not break down because 'r' could never reach zero.

    As long as r is smaller than the event horizon, there is no way of telling...
    I believe Einstein said himself that General Relativity would eventually be superseded. With regard to r going to 0 inside a black hole, one escape route may be that distance makes no sense inside a black hole. There is no r.

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  • xoggoth
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    Black hole is another name for Azathoth who obviously exists. Nyarlathotep tells us.

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  • gingerjedi
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    Originally posted by deckster View Post
    Since when has intuition had anything to do with physics? Certainly anything vaguely related to quantum mechanics or relativity theory has only a nodding acquaintance with anything that actually makes sense.

    As for mass taking up no space - once we've worked out what mass actually is (and found that damn Higgs Boson), and once we've pinned down the concept of 'space', we'll be able tell whether it's silly or not.
    I hope so but I fear the human mind just isn't sophisticated enough to comprehend whats going on.

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  • deckster
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    Originally posted by SoupDragon View Post
    Intuitively, the idea that mass can take up no space is silly. This being the case, Einsteins equations would not break down because 'r' could never reach zero.

    As long as r is smaller than the event horizon, there is no way of telling...
    Since when has intuition had anything to do with physics? Certainly anything vaguely related to quantum mechanics or relativity theory has only a nodding acquaintance with anything that actually makes sense.

    As for mass taking up no space - once we've worked out what mass actually is (and found that damn Higgs Boson), and once we've pinned down the concept of 'space', we'll be able tell whether it's silly or not.

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by centurian View Post
    We'll soon know when the chaps at CERN start churning them out of the collider.

    It'll sure help bring Europe 'closer together'

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  • centurian
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    We'll soon know when the chaps at CERN start churning them out of the collider.

    It'll sure help bring Europe 'closer together'

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  • SoupDragon
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Black holes are just a convenient way for Brown to raise taxes.
    They are certainly a tax haven

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Great. The CUK geniuses take on Physics. The world is agog.

    Black holes are just a convenient way for Brown to raise taxes.

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  • sasguru
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    Great. The CUK geniuses take on Physics. The world is agog.

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