shadowprophet
November 29th, 2008, 18:14
Bring us about and fire phasers on my mark,
You know in a sense, television shows like star trek and buck rogers, have done more damage to young minds then possibly calculable.
they fire the imagination with scientific terms often based "at least partly" in authentic science theory.
but the truth is, most people don't really know what a light year, or a black hole, or antimatter for that .. uhh.. matter.
Today though, i'd like to talk about a term you have all likely heard, but may not really know what the term means.
Spacetime,
An example of spacetime could be made at you own home with common place house hold items .
Imagine spacetime as sheet of rubber pulled tightly at all four corners, when you place a small marble "we will call this marble earth" on the sheet it sets there as it should, but notice the indentation our marbel made in the rubber around it, this indentation represents earths gravity, and it's effects on spacetime, if you place another heavier sphere on the rubber sheet, what happens? the heavier object will have a greater effect on the rubber sheet, err,or spacetime and pull the lesser object into its gravity,
now imagine placing a very very heavy object,"our black hole, for this model with an awesome impact on spacetime. like a metal ball barring. this object, sinks down so far it sinks into an area known as hyperspace, and all we see is an empty spot on our model that looks like a hole.
"we call that an event horizon, once you cross the event horizon, that's it theres no turning back, you are back hole food"
with such a radical effect on spacetime, all things slowly gravitate to it.
Hey? what happens when two black holes have such an effect on spacetime,or that they meet each other in this area known as hyperspace?
You get what astro physics deem, a wormhole.
An anomaly where two black holes meet in hyperspace connecting one event horizon with another.
Congradulations, if you have read and understood this, you now possess a college level understanding of spacetime
:cool:
You know in a sense, television shows like star trek and buck rogers, have done more damage to young minds then possibly calculable.
they fire the imagination with scientific terms often based "at least partly" in authentic science theory.
but the truth is, most people don't really know what a light year, or a black hole, or antimatter for that .. uhh.. matter.
Today though, i'd like to talk about a term you have all likely heard, but may not really know what the term means.
Spacetime,
An example of spacetime could be made at you own home with common place house hold items .
Imagine spacetime as sheet of rubber pulled tightly at all four corners, when you place a small marble "we will call this marble earth" on the sheet it sets there as it should, but notice the indentation our marbel made in the rubber around it, this indentation represents earths gravity, and it's effects on spacetime, if you place another heavier sphere on the rubber sheet, what happens? the heavier object will have a greater effect on the rubber sheet, err,or spacetime and pull the lesser object into its gravity,
now imagine placing a very very heavy object,"our black hole, for this model with an awesome impact on spacetime. like a metal ball barring. this object, sinks down so far it sinks into an area known as hyperspace, and all we see is an empty spot on our model that looks like a hole.
"we call that an event horizon, once you cross the event horizon, that's it theres no turning back, you are back hole food"
with such a radical effect on spacetime, all things slowly gravitate to it.
Hey? what happens when two black holes have such an effect on spacetime,or that they meet each other in this area known as hyperspace?
You get what astro physics deem, a wormhole.
An anomaly where two black holes meet in hyperspace connecting one event horizon with another.
Congradulations, if you have read and understood this, you now possess a college level understanding of spacetime
:cool: