Stephen Hawking revamps black hole theory.

[Treebeard]

presents his new theory
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/07/21/hawking.blackholes.ap/index.html


But there is a musical side to him also.


http://www.fruhead.com/users/FruHammer/TheMightyStephenHawking.mp3

[Craig Tucker]

The thing that amazed me most about that story is that Stephen Hawking is 62, I had no idea he was that old.

[Will Hay]

The thing that amazed me most about that story is that Stephen Hawking is 62, I had no idea he was that old.

Yeah, good looking for his age.
My thoughts exactly.
Will

[DVD_Ripper]

His quote:

"Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says black holes, the mysterious massive vortexes formed from collapsed stars, do not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually fire out matter and energy "in a mangled form."

How the hell does someone think that deep to understand the black hole itself ... not to mention what happens when it consumes 'other things'....

out there.....

[flaninacupboard]

perhaps it's the way he's forced to communicate with the world, he has to consider and prepare everything he says, not just blurt stuff out.

Interesting though, i thought he had motor neurone disease - unless it has different names around the world?

[Devanshu]

I read that in the paper today while the prof was yapping somthing about hydrocarbons. The funniest thing I saw in the article was the name of the convention "International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation" and my friend said to me, hm...that would be fun convention to go to.

Made me chuckle.

[handyguy]

It's just a theory.

It's not a law.

[flaninacupboard]

all quantum science is "theory" as it's not directly observable

[vitualis]

Interesting though, i thought he had motor neurone disease - unless it has different names around the world?

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is the most common form of motor neurone disease.

Regards.

[Doramius]

Steven Hawking - The VOICE of 'Speak & Spell'

He seems pretty cool whenever there is an interview with him. He's also very fast at talking on that thing, too. I just want to hear him say, "Wha Chya got Bi-Atch?"

I should find some other forums I've been in the past. I was talking to someone a year or 2 ago about blackholes in some astronomy forum. It all started because the previous weekend I was on a campout and some friends and I were around a campfire talking about the stars and blackholes. I was saying it couldn't go on forever sucking in everything. I gave carbon coal to a diamond as a 'for instance' Carbon coal is less dense and let's say it's gravity causes it to attract items and cause itself to compress further and further. Pretty soon it can't compress and anything continuing to compress to itself just gets rejected and turns into it's own diamond. It's a distorted form of carbon due to pressure. It'd be kindda cool to find out that there is a jupiter sized diamond floating in space with the density and weight of thousands of our Suns.

That's my little speil.

[offline]

It'd be kindda cool to find out that there is a jupiter sized diamond floating in space with the density and weight of thousands of our Suns

But black holes do not just crush, they mash; and anyting that dense
(thousand suns worth of diamonds) with that mass (Jupiter) would form a white hole. Only a videohelp.com post whore can be that dense ..and
any minute now Flan is going to implode as an example.

[offline]

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is the most common form of motor neurone disease.

So how do you do that test on the foot, you know the one used
for part testing of both mechanical spinal injury and ALS?

[handyguy]

"all quantum science is "theory" as it's not directly observable"

Baloney! There are several quantum laws.
e.g.
Fermi-Dirac-Sommerfeld law
Kirchhoff's law
etc

[curryman]

It was explained earlier that all this is theory only and 500 years ago the same conversations were being had about if the World was flat or not.

We could all look pretty darn silly in a few centuries or so.

[Ripper2860]

His quote:

"Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says black holes, the mysterious massive vortexes formed from collapsed stars, do not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually fire out matter and energy "in a mangled form."

How the hell does someone think that deep to understand the black hole itself ... not to mention what happens when it consumes 'other things'....

out there.....

Not to be confused with "Northcat's Black Hole Theory" ...

"Famed Off Topic Forum member Northcat_8 says black holes, the mysterious and moist vortexes found in women and formed strictly for the pleasure of men (and coincidentally used as part of perpetuating the species), do not destroy everything they consume, but instead merely emasculate men leaving them quivering and weak-minded wimps which huttle in masses, trading recipes and recounting the days when they were real men."

Or should it be a "Law"?

[flaninacupboard]

But black holes do not just crush, they mash; and anyting that dense
(thousand suns worth of diamonds) with that mass (Jupiter) would form a white hole. Only a videohelp.com post whore can be that dense ..and
any minute now Flan is going to implode as an example.

ok.........

[Doramius]

"all quantum science is "theory" as it's not directly observable"

Baloney! There are several quantum laws.
e.g.
Fermi-Dirac-Sommerfeld law
Kirchhoff's law
etc

Several quantum laws have already been broken or rewritten. There is some quantum that has been observed, and they write a law that is soon rewritten or broken. It only takes time. Earth is not the center of the universe. And nearly all of Newton's laws have been broken.

[flaninacupboard]

Precisely, eventually scientists will be sure enough that superstring theory dictates what happens in the quantum world that it'll become factual and an unbreakble law. till we find out the strings are being plucked by miniature leprechauns or something....

[Doramius]

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory does not understand it

Nobody understands quantum theory.

- found inside the front cover of TIMELINE, by Michael Crichton. - [/quote]

[flaninacupboard]

Bohr probably means the concept as opposed to the mathematics which yes, no-one understands.

[lordsmurf]

This is a perfect example of a bunch of shit I dont' understand. However, I plan to go to B&N tomorrow and buy the illustrated Hawking book. Yep, I need pictures.

[offline]

I plan to go to B&N tomorrow and buy the illustrated Hawking book. Yep, I need pictures.

What no pop up version?


@ Flan: just j/k

[handyguy]

His wife was pretty nice looking. I wonder how these guys get these women? There is a guy Randy who works for UCSD in a similar predictment as SH & when I went there to visit he was surrounded with beautiful coeds. Must be some magic to it.

[smearbrick1]

Gadgets... It's all about the gadgets. Imagine, he has a device that allows him to select words to form sentences for the computer to read aloud... he's gotta have some sweet bedroom toys that just make em' come back for more.

[flaninacupboard]

Gadgets... It's all about the gadgets. Imagine, he has a device that allows him to select words to form sentences for the computer to read aloud... he's gotta have some sweet bedroom toys that just make em' come back for more.

That's just wrong.

Lordsmurf, BHoT is a good read, i suggest you follow it up with The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.

Both have illustrations, well, diagrams

[offline]

Stephen Hawking is a great theoretical physicist but
he is never going to come up with the universal
theory and thus answer the question we all want answered.

Why does chicken taste like chicken?