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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

“Paint it black. Black as night.”

Stereophonic Soundtrack from Rolling Stones

Recorded time-warped version spins.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Hmmm…. Shouldn’t have eaten her if he was going to miss her so much😜

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Honeygloom's avatar

Hmmm…. Shouldn’t have eaten her if he was going to miss her so much😜

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David Vandervort's avatar

Light everywhere

Then pain and unending dark

Now I only eat

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love this take, anthropomorphizing it makes it so much more horrifying🖤

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Flattened choir, rejoice

From a hole in the sky sing

Your hymn to the light

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Honeygloom's avatar

Beautiful 🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

All that falls inside is lost,

lost to time and to fate -

and we're inside one now

though we don't know it

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Honeygloom's avatar

So this is what slow annihilation is like? I… have complaints.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

The line "we're inside one now" is actually to be taken literally - the holographic theory has it that the universe is a giant black hole with all our 3D space encoded as a 2D hologram on the outer boundary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ok that is going to take me a while and a few google side quests to read😂 But on the surface my question is, if we’re inside a black hole, wouldn’t our universe be turning into spaghetti? And if so, would it be expanding in two directions and contracting in two directions? As opposed to outward in all? I have a very basic understanding of all this so apologies if I have it all messed up😅

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Short answer: no, because the spaghettification comes when you cross an event horizon (or even before) and not when you're inside where the gravity is - as far as they know - the same everywhere.

As for contracting, this could be a prob for the theory, but maybe not, as black holes evaporate when quantum leakage happens over the event horizon (aka Hawking radiation). This might happen but would be a tiny effect in comparison with existing expansion. And maybe there's nowhere for it to leak into anyway.

But I'm not expert and I'm waiting for my niece to graduate so I can ask her all this stuff. Presently I try to follow PBS Space/Time and Don Lincoln from Fermilabs on YouTube but my brain often melts while doing so.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Haha! Also experiencing brain melt this month on a regular basis. 😅

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Also the name of a 1979 movie from Disney.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Psh, I thought you were joking but no, there really is a Disney movie called Black Hole 🤷‍♀️

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David Perlmutter's avatar

That was their attempt to copy "Star Wars" (they didn't own it then and were probably envious of its' box office take.)

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erniet's avatar

It was terrible...

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erniet's avatar

Light dies in this place

Bent and twisted beyond sense

Abandon normal

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo I love this! Normal is not really my scene🖤

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erniet's avatar

Thanks...things get weird at relativistic speeds....😁

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Honeygloom's avatar

I am coming to find out this month that nothing is quite as it seems.

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erniet's avatar

Ha! Do a month on quantum mechanics!

Wave collapse, the “double-slit” experiment (Feynman said that was the only mystery in physics), Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum entanglement…it makes strange and unusual look mundane…😁

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Honeygloom's avatar

I have dabbled, and frequently find I am way in over my head😂

The double slit experiment I’ve seen on YouTube… I really don’t know how these guys sleep at night. Shit that only appears when you look at it? Wtaf 😱

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erniet's avatar

It’s not that it appears; it’s that the wave function collapses. It’s the Copenhagen Interpretation…a particle exists in all possible locations and states until you look at it, in which case all the states collapse into that one state…

See? Even weirder thanyou thought!😂

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

My (w)hole heart is black

Depths of which you swam into

Never to return

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Honeygloom's avatar

Hey, just my kind of man🖤

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Senryū:

Sweating scientists

Decode a black hole's music

Air conditioner hums

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Summer love affair

Pulled in by your gravity

No hope of escape

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Pressure waves ripple

Through lazy afternoon naps

Cosmic dreams unfold

.

Fireflies dance by

Like photons at the event

Horizon's edge - gone

.

Ice cream melts quickly

Its atoms rearranging

Like matter in space

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Honeygloom's avatar

So beautiful! And so many unique interpretations🖤

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

A bottomless pit

How far does it go? Dare I

attempt to head in?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Maybe come out the white hole on the other side?

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Theresa Greene's avatar

Black hole of death sings

Cruel slayer of beloved ones

Your voice haunts my dreams .

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Honeygloom's avatar

So beautiful! Sounds like the beginning of a great story, too🖤

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Theresa Greene's avatar

Thank you for the opportunity to exercise my poetic muscles!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Of course! Thank you for joining us!

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Theresa Greene's avatar

You are my first entry on Substack!

Been trying to figure it out and feel at home here. Thanks !

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah cool! Well if you need any recommendations for stuff to read or other writers to hang with, let me know what you’re into!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

There in the darkness,

Lies, those trapped inside, whose cries,

Remain unanswered... 😎

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