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And if you stand on one foot, you can’t catch the measles.
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saw what now?
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Fake News! Interstellar told me a black hole looks like this
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Nasa is sending potatoes into space now?
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How can you see something that supposedly doesn’t even let light escape?
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Rats! Now I’m gonna get the measles.
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The Astronomy Community is no longer allowed to the consider the color of holes in their process of admitting celestial bodies into their charts.
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Lazy bastards, they didn’t even have to build a soundstage or hire actors for this. Conspiracies are too easy now.
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Exciting as it is, the photo actually doesn’t capture the black hole itself, nor its interior. Astronomers aimed their telescopes at the event horizon, the invisible boundary thought to surround all black holes. When something crosses this barrier, it doesn’t come back. In the photos, the event horizon has cast a shadow on the bright, hot gas swirling at the galactic center. Just before the cosmic material crosses over, it heats up and glows. The black hole appears in silhouette, a slightly elongated ball, ringed by a halo of fire.
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By watching it suck particles into its hole. It turns out physics is pretty erotic.
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But we already know that we can believe Hollywood because they’re woke.
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Spudnik
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Very high ISO.
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So in a manner of speaking, we are seeing it’s shadow?
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Well played, Sir!
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Are people supposed to know this person?
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I hear they have fake video now.
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I don’t believe standing on zero feet was considered, so you may be okay.
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Reposting this link here since this thread got some action.
this is a great explainer on what we’re seeing in this picture and why the picture is so important.
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It’s a silhouette , right?
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Yes. Photons reflecting outside of the event horizon.
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this is actually the eye of the turtle that holds our flat earth in space
/s
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Photons don’t reflect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics
You’re seeing the emissions
from a few
sources. First, Hawking radiation, or spontaneous particle creation, which happens in pairs of particles and anti-particles. Close enough to the EH, one of the particle pair is sucked in, so the expected annihilation doesn’t occur. Second, matter speeding up through a gas cloud as it falls into the EH generates friction, which emits energy from the gas cloud, literally like a light bulb. Third, light bending around the black hole via gravitational lensing.
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So would silhouette be a better description of what we are looking at here?
Also: what is your line of work so that you know all of this on the tip of your typing fingers?
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And the sort of halo is made up of chem trails being dispersed by black helicopters.
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So according to the video, because of how light bends around the black hole, we’re seeing the side and the back of the black hole as well.
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Haven’t you seen this documentary?
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I don’t know. I kind of don’t like that term, but it’s mostly applicable. A silhouette would imply that it’s lit from behind, and blocking the light, when really what you’re looking at it kind of like a very dim light bulb inside one of those BMW angel eye lights. If you look, you can see that the “hole” part in the center, it’s not entirely black. There is some illumination. The reason there’s a ring is due to an aggregation of light around the edges that is emitted towards you because the thickness of the material you’re looking through is greater. Imagine a sphere of a certain thickness, but it has a black center. If you look directly at it, you are looking through exactly the thickness of the sphere. But if you look down the side, you’re looking through a longer tangent, so more thickness. Like this:
Green line is dimmer than the red line because of the area of illumination on the direct path, basically.
I have a degree in theoretical physics, with a minor in astrophysics, and I’ve been working with electromagnetics and nuclear physics for about 20 years.
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That’s Stanley Kubrick , one of the greatest film makers ever. There’s a conspiracy theory that the US government paid him to film the “fake” moon landings.
Check out the film Room 237 for an entertaining and interesting analysis of The Shining. There’s a lot of Apollo imagery baked into that film.
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I’ll check the video later because work. But thank you for the 4-1-1.
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I am a civil engineer. I got a B in physics and that was that. If it has anything to do with drinking water or moving poop down a pipe I’m your man.
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Thanks for this explanation
. It even makes sense to me, a lowly
civil engineer
!
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Glad it helps! I never know if I’m saying something that makes sense, but I do try!
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There’s a conspiracy theory that the US government paid him to film the “fake” moon landings.
Being the obstinate perfectionist he was though, Kubrick insisted on NASA flying the actors and sets to the Moon though.
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If you compare the images though, Interstellar got it mostly right.
04/10/2019 at 13:57 |
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“In....Through...And beyond...”
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Reminds me of “Capricorn One.”
Thank you for filling me in.