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Originally posted by UM_Gazz
Wouldn't it be interesting if it was found to be growing at an exponential rate?
Eventually consuming all matter in the universe, compressing it and reaching critical in time exploding into the birth of a new universe?
The repeating big bang, maybe we have been here before millions of times already.
Interesting submission Quantum_Squirrel.
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"There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time," Alfven explained. "It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago."
Originally posted by laiguana
It's the gates of hell!
A gravitational singularity (sometimes spacetime singularity) is, approximately, a place where quantities which are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite. Such quantities include the curvature of spacetime or the density of matter. More accurately, a spacetime with a singularity contains geodesics which cannot be completed in a smooth manner. The limit of such a geodesic is the singularity.
The two most important types of spacetime singularities are curvature singularities and conical singularities. Singularities can also be divided according to whether they are covered by an event horizon or not (naked singularities). According to general relativity the initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang, was a singularity, or single point. Another type of singularity predicted by general relativity is inside a black hole: any star collapsing beyond a certain point would form a black hole, inside which a singularity (covered by an event horizon) would be formed, as all the matter would flow into a certain point (or a circular line, if the black hole is rotating). These singularities are curvature singularities.
Originally posted by PureET
Have you guys ever thought of the possibility that within this "hole" matter moves at the speed of light.
I say this because you've gotta think of the effect... What happens when you move faster then the speed of light?
-PureET
Originally posted by eddiemaiden_80
Originally posted by laiguana
It's the gates of hell!
I like that thought. Could make for a real good film.....
Originally posted by Quantum_Squirrel
Originally posted by PureET
Have you guys ever thought of the possibility that within this "hole" matter moves at the speed of light.
I say this because you've gotta think of the effect... What happens when you move faster then the speed of light?
-PureET
i think Everything in the universe is moving at the speed of light away from everything else .. if this were the case then wouldnt everything be invisible?
[edit on 24/8/07 by Quantum_Squirrel]