tnf wrote:
1) What is a black hole?
2) Do all stars end up as black holes?
2a) What are the basic stages in the life cycle of a star and what events trigger the transition from one stage to another?
3) How is the effect of gravity actually perpetuated through the universe?
4) What is gravitational lensing?
5) What is an 'event horizon"?
6) Is the universe expanding?
7) Can a universe be finite but not bounded?
8) What are some of the possible 'shapes' of the universe?
9) Is the fabric of spacetime actually smooth (according to quantum mechanics?)
1. I don't know the specifics, just how gravity might be working to create one. Like I keep saying, instead of a huge warp in spacetime around a super large object causing massive gravity I think perhaps you have a situation where the stretching of the fabric of reality that causes gravity is being done on a different scale in a black hole. The idea that gravity itself is responsible is definitely plausible since the whole issue revolves around gravity.
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See where the = sign is would be where I think the fabric of reality simply stretches out to form a contour around any object. However the @ represents the fabric being completely bundled together. In fact at the center it might even be plausible that all gravity cancels itself out. It's the bundling of spacetime that's critical to my point.
2. Apparently no.
2a. I dont' know, however stars are not what I've been concentrating on. My observations so far have been to analize how empty space interacts with the rest of the universe. That's all I've been looking at, empty space.
3. Through the fabric of reality. It's stretching in anyway creates a gravitational push towards the opposite direction it's being pushed to. I beleive it's the motion of the fabric to want to return to it's neutral position int he unvierse that causes this. This neutral position likely changes and they're linked by black hole throughout the universe. The black holes basicly create the tension needed. Naturaly without a black hole the fabric of reality would not create gravity. But of course without the phenomenon of a black hole and the fabric of reality present together our universe could simply not exist as it is now.
4. I've never heard the term before. However it sounds a lot like a term that could be used in relation to what I'm saying. For instance.... If it was possible to create half a planet it might be possible to play funny tricks with gravity. On the flat part of the planet gravity wouldn't exist or perhaps the force of gravity on the other side of the planet might eject you from the planet. It'd be a form of focused gravity so to speak. Perhaps if you could warp the fabric of reality on a smaller scale by bundling it together like a black hole you could also control it's force and direction.
5. I have no idea. I'm assuming it has something to do with the fabric of reality.
6. Yes, defninitely
7. no it has to have a boundary I'm guessing at this point.
8. It has to be somewhat spherical. Doesn't have to be a perfect sphere but it would definitely be in that general shape.
9. I have no idea what the texture of spacetime or the fabric of reality is like. However I suspect it is not smooth. In fact I suspect it's more like a cog wheel fitting together perfectly. If you were able to turn one of these cogs theoreticaly based on what I'm proposing all the other cogs would also have to turn. Whether this is in a 2 or 3 dimensional way however is still a mystery to me.
