(urth) UotNS and how it screws with your head

Cliff Judge transentient at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 10:43:29 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> On 7/13/2010 3:19 PM, Cliff Judge wrote:
>
>>
>> (I understand that the cosmological models most popular with physicists
>> these days involve a constant expansion until entopy has reached max,
>> but on the other hand, some recent papers have thrown credibility
>> towards the concept that black holes in our universe connect to white
>> holes in other universes, so Wolfe seems to be 1 for 1 here).
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by recent. The black hole/white hole thing still
> had some currency at the time of writing despite 1975's "discovery" and
> rapid acceptance of Hawking radiation allowing all of the black hole's
> matter-energy to eventually leak back into the same universe (for
> excessively long values of eventually) but as of 2005, the bulk of
> physicists including Hawking have held that that the information can return
> as well, though the only other black hole theorist of equal stature, Kip
> Thorne, remains unconvinced.
>

So what's this "dark flow" nonsense I have been hearing about in recent
months?
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