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Feb
2008
Posted by marko as Astronomy Videos
Some months ago newspapers reported that the Heaviest Black Hole Has Been Found, and a bit later the Heaviest Small Black Hole Has Been Found. After that I noticed that many people read those posts, so I figured it out that it I should provide something more on black holes. While I am writing a longer article on black holes, I came up with an idea to post videos from YouTube because “one picture tells more than one thousand words. Now, if there are 24 still pictures in one second of a video, a ten minutes and seven seconds long video contains 14.568 still pictures. In order to describe an issue better than the video, I should write 14.568.000 words. That would be about 20.000 pages of text. Man, writing that would take a while..
Instead of reading those 20.000 pages of text on black holes, watch this video below. It is an interesting document of Stephen Hawking providing new information on black holes. This is not anything just recently published, but still interesting. As the person who uploaded this video to YouTube says, “In this video Stephen Hawking reverses his 30 year old theory that black holes destroy matter, and seeks to show convincingly that alternate universes exist without black holes“.
The theory of the infinite amount of parallel universes is fascinating, even though I am sure it will not be proved in my lifetime. Imagine how big our galaxy, the Milky Way is. Next imagine how far Andromeda galaxy is located from us. Then imagine that our Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda belong to a group of galaxies, and then imagine that there is a huge amount of similar groups of galaxies in the universe. Check out the most important picture taken by Hubble telescope (picture number 1) and realize how staggering large our universe is. Now, imagine if there is an infinite amount of universes like ours.. Wow! I think I need a coffee.
2 Responses
Alex Universe
February 10th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
1Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
A.Einstein
marko
February 11th, 2008 at 1:50 am
2Heh.. good point, Alex
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