Sunday, 25 August 2013

Pondering the Universe and beyond

there was a great program on TV, on the BBC, about stars, how they form, how they die,and all that they do. I always find it interesting when they show the historical parts, of how 'current thinking' has changed so much over the years, it makes me wonder what a similar program made in 50 years time would make of today's 'current thinking'.

From what i understand, as we theorize it today a sol sized star, when it dies releases oxygen and carbon into the universe, bigger stars are energetic enough to be able create through nuclear fusion a wider range of elements. Really huge stars ones that are so big that when they explode they collapse in so much that they do not leave a cinder of their remains in the form of a red dwarf, or a super dense pulsating neutron star, the really huge ones collapse in to create a black hole. and it is there our current understanding goes all vague as no information about black holes is able to pass beyond the event horizon, the black hole has such a powerful pull it sucks in everything around it, including light.

So, these really huge stars that are big enough to create all the elements, when they get 'too big' they end up collapsing in to form a black hole. One wonders whether much of the newly created elements and other matter are sucked back into the black hole.

Where does it go? is it spewed out the other side to create a new universe or galaxy or star, or an anti-universe, galaxy or star? Perhaps a consequence of being pulled through a black hole is to create 'anti' versions of all that is pulled through. That would lead to the thought that our universe could be littered with 'anti' stars, solar systems and planets.

But what about that when anti matter comes into contact with matter the result is annihilation? Well one thought could be that as black holes also appear to mess with time as well as space, well perhaps what comes out the other side is also anti-time or some 'other' sort of time/space, one that does not interact in any way with our time/space. Dark Matter?

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