Large Hadron Collider

[Pieloi]

Anyone remember the article about some guy who was found inside the perimeter of the Hadron Collider ? Claiming he was from the future ?

 

[johnwillyums]

No, but it sounds good.
Mind you that's what I'd say if they caught me breaking in

 

[Tarka Dal]

As an old Sceptical Engineer I want to be able to BUILD or DETECT something before I believe it exists.

Cheers
jimbo

I can completely understand that. Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. Which kind of goes along with the point that I was making...mitchell65 said that it was impossible to go out the other side of a black hole because a black hole only has a center. My question is: Who has gone in and confirmed that as absolute fact? No one. Therefore, as seeing is believing, I choose not to believe that there can't be an alternate universe/dimension/whatever on the other side of a black hole.

You mentioned the maximum observational view of the universe. That is the furthest that we know of. In our fallible opinion, the universe is ~14 billion years old. We can't prove that it isn't older than that, as of now. There is always the chance that the universe is billions of years older than we think, and that this universe is just a microcosm inside a much larger universe.

Anyway...I've been up for 42 hours at this point doing research, and my bed is calling to me very much. Thanks for the interesting conversation.

I think you are theoretically incorrect! In all likelyhood someone has but you mean you don't know them!

 

[Sanvean]

Actually there is a star cluster (don't remember name), in which Hubble took images, in which massive "lensing" is taking place.
Current speculation is dark matter.

Also with black holes (at least in my thoughts) it really isn't a hole, but a perfect sphere (not in the physical sense), due to equalized forces. The gases, debris and such swirl inward creating a disk at a equilibrium point. Now for this to happen, it would have to a rotational force tho.

My science is probably off lol, but I still enjoy thinking about these things time to time.
Kudos to everyone in this thread!

 

[mitchell65]

My science is probably off lol, but I still enjoy thinking about these things time to time.

Surely a contradiction in terms. If you are thinking your science is spot on!