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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (5356)	12/22/2000 12:56:25 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

But heck, if you have the insight I'm missing, I'm alllllllll ears!! You got the right attitude... I think I hung the donkey on the wall, and handed out the pins. All you gotta do is slap the preacher-- DAMN. I gotta sleep.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (5356)	12/22/2000 1:13:09 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

Cygnus X-1, Book One: The Voyage Prologue: In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force: the black hole of Cygnus X-1 Six Stars of the Northern Cross In mourning for their sister's loss In a final flash of glory Nevermore to grace the night... oceanrush.com

To: cosmicforce who wrote (5356)	12/22/2000 4:21:10 PM
From: Druss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Cosmic Force--<<My kids were asking about black holes and what it is like "inside one". Try answering that one for a 7 and 9 year old!>> I will give it a try. In smaller black holes the general theory is that matter is simply compressed beyond recognition. So it is broken down to elemental particles. Some physicists don't like this idea because it eliminates all that went before. An analogy would be burning a newspaper. In practical terms it is not really possible but in theoretical terms you could if you captured everything burnt reconstruct the newspaper. A black hole would seem to destroy that as a possibility. Larger black holes however can be very interesting. I mean very very large black holes. If you double the mass of the black hole you double the radius. This means the available volume goes up 8x. A black hole containing the matter of a galaxy would be more than 50x the diameter of the orbit of Pluto and the internal volume would be no more dense than a gas. Suppose you take a black hole the size of the known universe. The volume has increased so much that the matter inside would be equivalent to that of an exceedingly thin gas. According to physicist Kip Thorne we may be in a black hole. So tell your kids to look around. That may be what a really big black hole looks like. All the Best Druss