What's at the other end of a black hole?

Junghalli · Post by **Junghalli** » 2005-03-03 11:06pm

If a black hole contains a wormhole, what's at the other end of the wormhole? Does it connect to another black hole, or would there be a free floating wormhole in space?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-03-03 11:12pm

You've been watching too much sci-fi.

Junghalli · Post by **Junghalli** » 2005-03-03 11:14pm

Darth Wong wrote:You've been watching too much sci-fi.

Uh, OK, so the wormhole inside a black hole is a myth?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2005-03-03 11:15pm

Black holes don't contain wormholes.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-03-03 11:17pm

it just eats things. .

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-03 11:24pm

IIRC, Hawking once speculated a white hole exists at the opposite end. I don't know if that statement was in jest, but indeed, black holes are nothing more than garbage compactors.

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-03-03 11:25pm

This may sound like a stupid question, but since black holes can suck in light, where does that light go?

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-03-03 11:25pm

How did that myth get started anyway? From the name? My first exposure to it was from that old Disney movie by the same name.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2005-03-03 11:26pm

tumbletom wrote:This may sound like a stupid question, but since black holes can suck in light, where does that light go?

Possibly a paralel universe

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-03-03 11:28pm

tumbletom wrote:This may sound like a stupid question, but since black holes can suck in light, where does that light go?

Where does the "light go" when you turn off your electricity?

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-03-03 11:29pm

Darth Servo wrote:
tumbletom wrote:This may sound like a stupid question, but since black holes can suck in light, where does that light go?
Where does the "light go" when you turn off your electricity?

Ah, good point....I thought i had stumbled upon a paradox that could change the world.....lolz

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-03-03 11:29pm

Darth Servo wrote:How did that myth get started anyway? From the name? My first exposure to it was from that old Disney movie by the same name.

Thats a myth?

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-03-03 11:31pm

tumbletom wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:How did that myth get started anyway? From the name? My first exposure to it was from that old Disney movie by the same name.
Thats a myth?

That blackholes contain wormholes or doorways into parallel dimentions etc., yes.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-03-03 11:31pm

Black holes are dense stars that eat up stuff and add more mass to itself.

It doesn't actually get really big, volume wise, but it's got a lot of mass cause it's so dense.

So all that'd really happen is you sort of get sucked in, hang around for a bit (really, really, long time) until the black hole finally evaporates and you're free again----and find that everyone has aged by a few million years

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Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-03-03 11:32pm

Shinova wrote:So all that'd really happen is you sort of get sucked in, hang around for a bit (really, really, long time) until the black hole finally evaporates and you're free again----and find that everyone has aged by a few million years .

Of course the intense gravity would kill you long before time dilation kicks in but why be picky.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-03-03 11:33pm

dunno if consciouness would survive squishing, though.

Im told time does weird things there - like it would take milliosn of years for you to actually be squished.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-03-03 11:50pm

Enforcer Talen wrote: - like it would take milliosn of years for you to actually be squished.

Relative to whom

This is where all the fun in relativity and stuff starts.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-03-03 11:59pm

Shinova wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote: - like it would take milliosn of years for you to actually be squished.

Relative to whom

relative to an unladen swallow going at terminal velocity.

This is where all the fun in relativity and stuff starts.

hehe.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2005-03-04 12:16am

It doesn't go anywhere else. There's no other end. Stuff just gets sucked in and stays there until bajillions of years later (there's an equation somewhere to estimate how long into the future, but it's a ridiculously large amount of time) when the black hole evaporates and spews everything that went in back out. It used to be thought that all information about what went in originally would be lost (atoms ripped apart, light altered too dramatically, whatever) but now it seems that some information might be kept.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-03-04 01:43am

tumbletom wrote:This may sound like a stupid question, but since black holes can suck in light, where does that light go?

Light normally goes AWAY. Light sucked into a black hole doesn't go ANYWHERE. That's the whole point of sucking it in the first place.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-03-04 02:22am

Of course the intense gravity would kill you long before time dilation kicks in but why be picky.

I've read some theories that postulated that in the case of a sufficiently large black hole - such as the one at the center of the galaxy - you could pass through the event horizon and not even notice.

Anyway, I know what's on the other side of a black hole: A place in Texas where, on one side of the street, there's a Starbucks... and on the other side, facing directly at that Starbucks... is another Starbucks.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-03-04 02:26am

Mayabird wrote:It doesn't go anywhere else. There's no other end. Stuff just gets sucked in and stays there until bajillions of years later (there's an equation somewhere to estimate how long into the future, but it's a ridiculously large amount of time) when the black hole evaporates and spews everything that went in back out. It used to be thought that all information about what went in originally would be lost (atoms ripped apart, light altered too dramatically, whatever) but now it seems that some information might be kept.

I've read an article that theorizes that one day people may be able to create black hole computers.

Yes, black hole computers. Instead of transistors and stuff, you have a singularity. You sort of "tailor" it to the problem you have at hand, throw the information in and watch the answer come out as Hawking Radiation (IIRC).

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-03-04 05:44am

Shinova, you wanna get into some crazy shit, you should read up on Omega Point Theory. Ridiculous, but fascinating.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-03-04 06:28am

Slartibartfast wrote:
tumbletom wrote:This may sound like a stupid question, but since black holes can suck in light, where does that light go?
Light normally goes AWAY. Light sucked into a black hole doesn't go ANYWHERE. That's the whole point of sucking it in the first place.

Women could learn a thing or two from them...

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2005-03-04 08:40am

Matt Huang wrote:
Shinova wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote: - like it would take milliosn of years for you to actually be squished.

Relative to whom

relative to an unladen swallow going at terminal velocity.

European or African swallow?