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

To: SiouxPal who wrote (24360)	7/5/2006 5:55:51 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"Where does the stuff go that goes into a black hole?" The explanation works something like this. Material is detectable by it's position in space relative to other material. In order for us to detect it, we must be able to distinguish the material in it's unique way or in it's position relative to other material. When material achieves uniformity and becomes indistinguishable relative to other material it is undetectable, it virtually stops existing (it becomes no-thing). Analogy: When you yell something like, "GO RAIDERS!!!," at a stadium game you can hear the sound for a moment and as the sound of your voice blends and is diluted with other sound it becomes just part of the world's noise until we decide it is indetectable (no longer exists). Analogy 2: When you make a ripple on a lake, the waves eventually dissipate until they are no longer detectable as a distinct part of the lake, they no longer exist as a thing they are no-thing (nothing), you simply have the lake in its calm uniformity. Material in the Universe can expand away from other material in space in which case it becomes relatively distinguishable; or collapse on itself so that it becomes so much a part of some single uniformity that it is no longer detectable as a material thing that takes up space relative to other things. When this phenomenon occurs over vast regions of outer space, scientists don't like to say it became no-thing, they prefer the term 'Black Hole'. Somebody will probably argue with that description, which is fine.