Just an interesting thought. Listening to the other people in my high school chemistry class, I have come to categorize people into these three, um, categories regarding their personal opinions upon the nature of black holes. Yes, I know that black holes are not exactly related to chemistry, but hey, it was an interesting tangent.
Category #1: Black Holes are Gateways to ANOTHER UNIVERSE!
The question those in this category most often ask: How exactly do black holes lead to another universe? My response: You’ve been watching a little too much science fiction. While there is some merit to the theory, there just isn’t enough evidence, mathematical or otherwise, to support the probability that the gravitational distortion created by a black hole is great enough to actually warp space in our dimension and a hypothetically parallel/intersecting one to the extent that any object, even a particle of light, to pass through to that other dimension. Besides, if you got sucked into a black hole, you’d be crushed beyond the limits of time and space, so it’s kinda moot point anyway.
Category #2: Black Holes can CRUSH THINGS TO THE SIZE OF A SINGLE ATOM!
This one always cracks me up. Why is an atom always the “magic measurement” of science? Maybe it’s because of being taught in grade school of the immense importance of the ATOM, and how IMPORTANT IT IS! Why would the crushing intensity of the black hole stop at a single atom? Why not a neutron? Or a quark? Although considering the collective mass of the items being crushed, better make that a tau, or perhaps a muon….
Category #3: I Need Another Energy Drink!
I think this category kinda speaks for itself….
And then there’s my viewpoint. I myself am partial to the idea that the gravitational field of a black hole concludes itself in a mathematical point. That the mass being crushed never stops being crushed, that it just continues on being compressed smaller and smaller, down into infinity until it theoretically reaches a single mathematical point.
Until next time.
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