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Star Trek TNG. A utopian universe where humans just strive to better themselves and are pushed forward by the need for exploration.

I have heard OP's arguments before. It was in a creationist VS science debate, to discredit the big bang theory and science, without bringing forward any proof to show why their model of the universe would be more plausible.

Yes, maybe more than a simple artist rendering. Yet not a true representation. I had problems with the 2D representation, because it did not seem logical that mass would only effect space time round the equator :biggrin: They rarely explain more than meets the eye in those horrid Discovery...

Thank you for the awnser. Now i can get my head around it. The 2D representation seemed off to me. Good to know it is but an artist rendering.

This is a layman question, so hold your temper. :) If gravity is the effect created by a mass that bends space time, how (in what fashion) does space time bend? I have seen it represented in 2d with a 3d sphere in the middle. But wouldn't spacetime be bended over the entirety of the mass...

That is more of a paradox than anything else. Almost the same thing as the god paradox. "If god is omnipotent, can he create a rock that he himself can not lift?" And the OP makes sense to me. Existence in one form or the other is more likely than nothing at all. The existence we are...

Can black holes still add to their own mass? If matter falls into a black hole, could it be that this matter is just absorbed and just makes the hole bigger? Or does a black hole have a finite amount of mass it can sustain?

I don't believe there really is a solid solution for this problem yet... Or is there?

This is actually a little bit philosofical. You may want to read up on the B theory. The B theory is in short the idea that the future is not less real than the past, just because we know less about it. It does not use tenses, but rather describes events as sooner, before or after or...

So, if we were to observe a black hole from the outside, would it be possible that we could see an echo of some sort representing the things that have "fallen" in? If i were to fall into a black hole, would my image be preserved for all eternity, seeing as it would take an infinite amount of...