10th March 2006, 4:35 PM
It would seem some scientists have calculated an alternative explanation for what had previously been called black holes. The major attraction to this explanation? It doesn't violate the current understanding of quantum physics. Essentially, rather than forming a singularity, a colllapsed star forms a sort of shell with a vacuum inside. Now, of course a vacuum doesn't actively suck things into it, otherwise the universe would suck away our atmosphere so very isntantly. Apparently, the shell has a very strong gravitational pull, and the vacuum has some sort of odd property that actually results in antigravity. The thing is, when they modelled a universe sized "dark energy star", it managed to generate as much dark energy as we currently see in the universe today.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fund...3.600.html
Readinate it.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fund...3.600.html
Readinate it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)