On 26 Aug, 15:10, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have no idea of the truth about the universe. All I can do is
> speculate based on what is apparent at the moment inclusive of the
> knowledge I have acquired in the course of my life.
>
> The universe as postulated by our extremely limited knowledge may be
> many things and have many qualities, but the only thing I can say
> about it with any certainty (and very little at that) is that it
> exists and as far as we know contains what we can perceive with our
> primitive instruments.
>
> Recently there have been two very interesting tv shows about black
> holes, the latest one being on Nova (PBS) last night. It seems our
> science has produced evidence that certain things happen near and in a
> black hole but we have no idea what these things actually are. Given
> that the nearest black hole may be at the center of our own galaxy,
> some fifty thousand light years away and blocked from our strongest
> telescopes by stellar dust, we don't even know for certain that there
> IS a black hole at the center of our galaxy. In fact, it appears we
> know more about the possible existence of a black hole at the center
> of Andromeda which is some 2.5 million light years away only because
> we can study it as a whole from a distance whereas that perspective is
> denied us with regard the Milky Way. Of course we can study black
> holes created (or so we speculate) within our own galaxy by watching
> stars which have collapsed but these are speculatively mere babies
> compared to the black hole that may center our own galaxy.
>
> Would you, or any of us, given the chance, dare dive into a black hole
> just to see what's on the other side? If there is another side.
>
Not me. I've got more important things to do. ;-)
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