September 11, 2001 – five years after the attacks many people are asking questions about what happened on that day in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Websites, articles, books and documentaries have put forward a variety of alternate theories to the government’s account of what happened. The most popular of these is a documentary called “Loose Change.” Now, a book dealing with many of these theories has just been published by the magazine Popular Mechanics, it’s called “Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts.” In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, we host a debate between the filmmakers of Loose Change and the editors of Popular Mechanics on 9/11.
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Complete video at: fora.tv Celebrity astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson describes the (hypothetical) experience of death by falling into a black hole. —– Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries.” Whether discussing the universe’s origins as host of NOVA’s “scienceNOW” or asserting that Pluto is a not a planet on “The Colbert Report,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson translates the universe’s complexities for a broad audience. Known as the great explainer of all things cosmic, Tyson first became known in the astronomy community by lecturing on the subject at the age of fifteen. He is currently the director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he also teaches. Tyson has written seven popular books including the bestselling Death by Black Hole and the memoir The Sky Is Not The Limit. His professional research explores star formation, dwarf galaxies, exploding stars, and the structure of the Milky Way, topics which he writes about in his long running “Universe” column in Natural History magazine. Tyson’s varied honors include the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and People Magazine’s 2000 “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive” – City Arts and Lectures Ryan Wyatt is a science visualizer for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A longtime planetarian, he is actively involved in promoting fulldome video technology within the planetarium community. He manages the Fulldome …
I’d rather go to space than go to Australia, that’s even worse.
“Cosmic yoga” LOL
Yep!
so if you cant escape a black hole, does that prove that once you go black you never go back?
thank you for bring down the conversation to base instinct
That was a great explanation! I needed that.
If a particle can also be a wave, a physicist can also be a comedian.
once you go black you never go back
“To Hannes Alfvén, the Big Bang was a fable — a fable devised to explain creation. “I was there when Abbé Georges Lemaitre first proposed this theory,” he recalled. Lemaitre was, at the time, both a member of the Catholic hierarchy and an accomplished scientist. He said in private that this theory was a way to reconcile science with St. Thomas Aquinas’ theological dictum of creatio ex nihilo or creation out of nothing.”
Anthony L. Peratt, ‘Dean of the Plasma Dissidents’, The World & I May 1988
Yeah, I did quote the second paragraph because I posted the address for the article. Why do you assume I base my opinion on ONE article? Come on man, you have got to use your head and get away from this physics that is pure fantasy and does nothing for human kind but dumb us down. Watch this video on Stephen J. Crothers on Black Hole mathematics……put a w w w in front, and . c o m after ‘youtube’……………….. youtube/watch?v=fsWKlNfQwJU&list=UUvHqXK_Hz79tjqRosK4tWYA&index=8
Cosmic yoga. I lol’d hard to that one
Other than biasing your judgments off one article and directly quoting the second paragraph, it seems there are some faults with this article. First off black holes are not near infinitely dense. They are just as dense as the supernova’s they came from, but still enough to pull in light. Second, the black hole =/= 0. There is a small collection of atoms at the core of the black hole, which is referred to as the singularity. And I’m not physics genius and you probably aren’t either copy pasta
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A black hole is not empty space, it’s a really dense bundle of atoms that are so dense light can’t escape. However I must agree the G constant is a theory that is currently acting as a placeholder until more sensible mass formula’s are finally discovered. As that’s how science works, using what you have until you get something close enough to match what you’re looking for. This does not mean that G is wrong however as most science today aims towards theories similar to G, which may be developed.
Read this article for starter, and please read the entire article, don’t go in biased. You will thank me. Put a w w w. in front, and a . c o m after holoscience: holoscience/wp/the-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-astronomy/
Newton gave us a mathematical description of what gravity does. Einstein invoked an unreal geometry to do the same thing. Newton had the sense to “frame no hypotheses” about how gravity worked. Einstein made it impossible to relate cause and effect—which means that the theory of general relativity is not physics! How, precisely, does matter warp empty space? The language is meaningless. But this hasn’t stopped scientists declaring a law of gravitation with a ‘universal’ physical constant—’G.’
Yes, because clearly you, by yourself, have enough knowledge to hold back years of searching for various cosmic objects. Please, do show me some of your peer reviewing and mastership that disproves all of this. Also I have searched around and have found absolutely nothing about Schwarzschild saying black holes do not exist, or their math being changed. So please send me that as well if you will.
Its Dead space out there :p
‘cos he’s already been observed.
Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness. It states that among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected.
So Big Bang supporters beware, you are “believing” in the most complex, highly unlikely, speculative, and most contradicting theory that could be devised.