Black Holes

In his book 2005 book Parallel Worlds, Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, likens General Relativity to a Trojan Horse. On the surface, it is magnificent and one can obtain the general features of the cosmos, such as the Big Bang theory and the bending of starlight. However, inside lurk all types of ghosts, goblins, and other strange creatures like “black holes, white holes, wormholes, and even time machines, which defy common sense” (pg. 111).

Even parallel universes and their respective connecting portals are theoretically possible. Einstein thought these anomalies would never be found. Yet today, 100 years later, physicists cannot easily ignore these concepts. Kaku likens this world to Shakespeare’s metaphor that all the world is a stage. Yet on this stage are trap doors that, should you fall through one, you may not end up in the basement. Rather, you might end up in parallel stages that may be very similar to your original stage, yet have a separate set of unique laws, rules, and possibly even a new script.

Okay, very simply, a black hole is a region of space that is the result of the collapse of a star. According to NASA, if a star that massive or larger undergoes a supernova explosion, it may leave behind a fairly massive burned out stellar remnant. With no outward forces to oppose gravitational forces, the remnant will collapse in on itself. The star eventually collapses to the point of zero volume and infinite density, creating what is known as a " singularity ". As the density increases, the path of light rays emitted from the star are bent and eventually wrapped irrevocably around the star. Any emitted photons are trapped into an orbit by the intense gravitational field; they will never leave it. Because no light escapes after the star reaches this infinite density, it is called a black hole.

Some general (but not absolute) concepts about black holes

* A black hole has an extremely very high gravitational field where nothing can escape, not even light, although Dr. Stephen Hawking suggests black holes could emit particles due to quantum effects, called Hawking Radiation.

* Only stars considerably more massive than our sun, about 10-15 time heavier, could end up as a black hole. So we don’t have to worry about being sucked into a black hole. Our sun will never turn into a black hole. And even if it did, earth would remain outside the event horizon and not be sucked in.

* Astronomers have long suspected that supermassive black holes sit at the heart of most galaxies. Astronomers are closing in on proof that a supermassive black hole is the source of mysterious radio waves at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

* The event horizon is the area surrounding the black hole where the escape velocity equals the velocity of light. Outside the horizon, light, and a rocket ship, can escape because the escape velocity is less than the speed of light. Inside the horizon, however, light is pulled into the black hole, never to escape. And your rocket ship, well, if light cannot escape, then neither will you, or your ship.

* As you approach the event horizon, you would be experience spaghettification where you would be stretched from head to toe like spaghetti noodles by the gravitational gradient.

* In astronomy, the singularity is a term often used to refer to the center of a black hole, where the curvature of spacetime is maximal. At the singularity, the gravitational tides diverge; no solid object can even theoretically survive hitting the singularity. Mathematically, a singularity is a condition when equations do not give a valid value, and can sometimes be avoided by using a different coordinate system.

Remember earlier in the blog when I said we don’t have to worry about being sucked into a black hole? There are plenty of people who believe scientists are trying to create a mini-black hole in a laboratory using atom-smashing particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), thus sowing the seeds for our own destruction. But scientists at CERN say these fears are unfounded, and even if a mini-black home were ever created, it would have a very short lifetime.

References used:

* Prof. Michio Kaku, Professor Of Physics, City College of New York
* NASA
* Ted Bunn Associate Professor of Physics Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley
* CERN
* Fred K.Y. Lo, the director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia

Question Posed: Are you following events at CERN or other scientific research facilities? Do you care about the potential breakthroughs in physics mankind may be on the cusp of discovering?

E=MC2 Just What the Heck Does it Mean Anyway, And Why Should I Care?

E=MC2. Everybody knows it. We see it on the opening for the Twilight Zone floating past that black and white swirling thing. This famous formula has taken on an almost pop-icon status, being used in art and advertising.

But what does it really mean? Einstein was smart and he was curious. A double threat. He thought outside of the box. He was a dreamer who pondered what it would be like to travel on a beam of light. Sounds like my high school days.

In 1905 he published a series of four articles in the Annalen der Physik scientific journal that helped form modern physics. His third article, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, introduced to the world his Theory of Special Relativity. This was the beginning of a revolution in the field of physics that is still reverberating today. His fourth article, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy Content, introuduced us to the famous equation E=MC2.

E=MC2
E represents energy
m represents mass
c² (a very large number, indeed) represents the square of the speed of light

Einstein's realized matter and energy are different forms of the same thing and matter can be turned into energy and energy turned into matter. This is important because, according to the formula, a small amount of mass, multiplied by the square of the speed of light, equals a whole lotta energy. Remember, there is an equal sign in this equation. If mass is reduced on one side of the equation, energy has to be released on the other side to keep the equation, well, equal.

However, for all energy to be released, all matter would have to be destroyed and for this to happen, matter has to meet an equal part of anti matter. Has anyone read the book or seen the movie Angels and Demons? The evil Camerlengo Ventresca breaks into CERN, kills the director, and steals a quarter gram of antimatter so he can blow up Vatican City. Fortunately, a breakthrough in antimatter is science fiction, at least for now.

On a smaller scale, we have been able to harness the power of nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. In nuclear fission, heavy, unstable elements such as uranium are made up of atoms that fall apart as their protons repel away from each other. The extra mass disappears as energy. These atoms are radioactive.

In nuclear fusion, protons from are attracted together rather than repelled. When this happens, protons that are combined at very high speeds have less mass than when they were single protons because they now require less energy. The decrease in mass is released as energy. This is how our sun burns. We can replicate this process in the laboratory using lasers and in atomic bombs.

As powerful as this release of energy seems, these examples represent less than 1 percent of total available energy. So we can begin to see just how powerful the energy released when matter meets anti-matter and total energy is realized. Should science be able to one day harness this energy, without blowing up everything in site, perhaps unmanned or even manned space travel to other solar systems could be attainable.

Now we can easily see just how important of a discovery E=MC2 really is and how our lives have been drastically changed by it, for better or for worse.

Question Posed: Do you feel safer or less secure with the breakthroughs science is discovering?

Interview With Helena Harper

Hi everyone, and as always, thanks for stopping buy. Today we interrupt this regularly scheduled blog for an interview with a very wonderful and exciting guest, Helena Harper. I like to help support and promote other authors, especially children's writers.

Helena Harper is a native of England, but she grew up in a household that did things somewhat differently to other English households, because her mother was German (her mother had met her father in Hamburg at the end of WWII, when as a British soldier he had been stationed there). This mixed background has had a profound influence on Helena and her understanding of so-called national divisions and whom we call an 'enemy' and whom we call a 'friend'.

From an early age she loved to read and write, particularly fantasy stories, and later she enjoyed studying foreign languages. At Surrey University she studied German, Russian and International Relations and spent considerable periods of time in Germany, Austria and Russia as part of the course. After the university she went into banking, but soon realized that was not her calling. “I felt like I was being suffocated,” she recalls of the experience.

Helen completed her Postgraduate Certification in Education at Exeter University and fro the past 20 years worked as a modern languages teacher. During that time she has continued to write, focusing primarily on fantasy stories for young children. Recently she discovered the joys of writing poetry for adults. Her first two books, drawn from personal and professional experiences, are collections of poetry: It's a Teacher's Life...! and Family and More – Enemies or Friends?

Helena is now a private tutor and translator. She continues to write children's stories. Her goal is to see the book in print before year end. Many people ask Helena why she likes to write. She feels she can best express it like this:

The blank page calls,
the heart responds,
imagination spreads wide its wings
and launches into infinity...
Fingers dance,
words flow,
the page fills,
the soul takes flight
and the spirit sings.

Copyright © Helena Harper

Interview questions

1. Have you always been interested in writing poetry? Actually, no! I've always loved to write, but my first love has always been writing fantasy stories for young children. I wrote poetry at school, of course, and every so often when I was on holiday, but it wasn't a regular thing.

2. What inspired you to write your first book “It's a Teacher's Life...!” Well, I've been a teacher for 20 years and about three years ago, when I was having a lovely holiday at a beautiful place in the country, I was inspired to write some poetry, and when I came home, I then had the idea to write some more poems about my life as a teacher. Each poem would concentrate on a different aspect of school life, such as the lessons, what went on in the staffroom, school trips, exams, report writing, and so on. I also wanted to pay tribute to some of the support staff who do so much to keep a school running, but are often forgotten about e.g. the cook, the caretaker/janitor, the nurse, the school secretary – the unsung heroes of life is what I call them.

3. Do you have a favorite poem? No, I can't say I've got a favorite. Each one is written from the heart and it's impossible for me to single one out in particular.

4. What inspired you to write your book “Family and More – Enemies or Friends?” I had the idea one day whilst driving to work. I was just thinking about my family and other people in my life who've had a big influence on me, one way or the other, and suddenly the idea popped into my head that I could write a second collection of poems about them and the lessons I've learnt from them.

5. How did you come up with “Enemies or Friends?” That's got a lot to do with the fact that my mother is German and my father was English, and I just couldn't get my head round the fact that, had I been born a few years earlier, all my German relatives would have been my 'enemies'. To me they could never have been 'enemies', just 'family'. It got me thinking about how futile it is to talk about so-called national divisions.

6. What did you find the hardest about writing your book(s)? Finding the time to finish them and then the editing, the endless checking and re-reading – it drove me crazy!

7. What was the easiest part? Just writing the poems – I was totally absorbed by the process and really enjoyed it.

8. How do you describe your style of poetry? Easy-to-read, easily accessible free verse. I want people to be able to read and understand what I'm writing about from the word go. I don't like things to be hidden in obscurity. I write simply as I'm inspired to write. The poems I've had published in my two collections are really stories and character sketches that just happen to be in verse. One of the reviews on Amazon talks about me developing a new form of poetry, called the 'anecdotal poem', and I think that describes my style of poetry very well.

9. What's the attraction of writing poetry as opposed to writing children's stories? When I write poetry, I can concentrate on the rhythm and sound of the words and use vocabulary I wouldn't be able to use in my children's stories. It's a marvellous linguistic challenge - the sound of words has always been something that's fascinated me. It's one of the reasons I studied modern languages. When I write my children's stories, it's more about escaping into a wonderful world of fantasy, leaving the mundane 'real' world behind – I find it wonderfully exciting and liberating.

10. When you're not writing, what are you doing? Tutoring, translating, reading, walking, playing tennis or dancing, doing Pilates, spending time with my niece and nephew.

11. What are your future writing goals? The illustrations for my first children's picture book are being done at the moment and I will then get the illustrations done for my second picture book. I'm really looking forward to having my children's books published and going into schools to talk about them. Having been a school teacher for 20 years, I'm no stranger to the school environment, although it will perhaps be a little strange that I will be going into schools first and foremost as a writer rather than a teacher, although everyone can learn something useful, I hope, from my stories.

12. Is there anything else you'd like to add? Yes - if you want to write, just give it a go! You have to be willing to step into the unknown, but if you don't try, you'll never know and you may end up regretting that. All you need is an idea. It doesn't have to be fully developed, just sit down and start writing something and it will develop as you go along. You never know, it may be the best thing you ever do!


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The Multiverse

"Listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go.” - E. E. Cummings

Where exactly do you live? No cheating. Don’t pull out your driver’s license or look at the address on your utility bills for clues. The answer, if you’ve been reading my blogs this week, may not be as simple as one might imagine.

We are used to thinking of our world as a single universe, and within the universe are hundreds of billions of galaxies, of which our Milky Way is one. Within the Milky Way are 100-400 billions stars (depending on you who listen to) of which our sun is one. And our sun sets at the center of our solar system. Sounds like a pretty big place.

And yet, our universe may be one of countless other universes out there. There may be multiple universes, or a multiverse that supersedes our puny little ol’ universe. The multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) that together comprise all of reality. These multiple universes, each with their own unique structure, together compromise the multiverse and are also called parallel universes.

According to theoretical physicist Prof. Michio Kaku of New York University, there is mounting evidence to support the existence of the mulitverse, in which entire universes continually sprout, or “bud” off other universes (Parallel Worlds, pg. 15). This guy is awesome at explaining complex theories in simple, easy to understand layman’s terms.

I encourage you to go to YouTube
and type in Michio Kaku and listen to these short blurbs. In no time, you too can begin to understand many of the breakthrough concepts in the field of physics, technology, and medicine that will soon change the very fabric of our lives and society. Its also great material to weave together with greed, murder, and mayhem when writing an action suspense trilogy like BREAKTHROUGH.

We can go in many directions with this one. Where do we start? Could these parallel universes be where angels and demons live, and they can simply and effortlessly move back and forth from their universe to ours? This may not be so far-fetched. Recall the story of Jacob’s Ladder in the book of Genesis, a literal place here on earth, a portal if you will, where multitudes of angels could enter and leave our world.

This could help explain a lot of crazy things, such as war and mass murderers on one hand, and miraculous healings and other types of miracles on the other end of the spectrum of unexplained phenomena. Something to think about as you drive around town running errands today.

Question Posed: Do you buy into what the scientists are telling us regarding our universe, reality, and the breakthroughs they think mankind is on the cusp of discovering?

A Quick Overview of What a Breakthrough in Wormholes Could Mean For You and Me

As always, thanks for stopping by. Once again, I've asked Professor Chase Manhattan to help expound upon some of the basic, fundamental concepts of physics, and to help explain the unexplained; namely, the reality we live in and try to understand with a mixture of religion and science (which may not be a bad idea). Its a bit lenghty, but I guarantee worth your time. You may never be the same.

So I invite you to take a few minutes, be a fly on the wall, and listen to an abbreviated conversation (Chapter 29 of BREAKTHROUGH) between Prof. Chase Manhattan and Prof. Nicholas Fischer, the M.I.T. professor who made the initial breaktrhough in wormholes, in an attempt to explain the visible and invisible world we exist in.

“Prof. Fischer, I see what’s going on. Your field of expertise is the same as mine. I delved into Dr. Newcombe’s articles, and she had the same vision as you. I can see you made a breakthrough in something, and I think I know what that something is.”

Fischer looked up at Chase. “Why don’t you just come right out and say it, Prof. Manhattan?”

Chase leaned in closer. “You discovered a breakthrough in Einstein-Rosen Bridges. You and Dr. Newcombe discovered how to transport people and things from one place to another. Someone must have found out about your breakthrough, stolen the technology from you, and used it to kill Sen. O’Connor and Dr. Newcombe. They then framed you for O’Connor’s murder.”

A glimmer of hope surfaced on Nicholas’s face as he slowly sat up in his chair. He formed a quick, crafty grin, then let out a loud, boisterous laugh that echoed inside the room. Chase hoped that Buerling wouldn’t hear it and return. Fischer took three deep breaths and began to regain his composure. Chase noticed a shade of color came back into his face.

“Okay, Chase, I’m the criminal court system. I’m my attorney. I’ve been told what you just said. Do you think that would make a good defense?”

“I understand your problem. I’ve been theorizing the same material, searching for the same breakthrough, although with much less success, and my peers and students have been laughing at me.”

Fischer leaned into the table. “Tell me, Chase, what would you do in my situation? Would you have the police confiscate the technology that could back up my story?”

“No, I wouldn’t do that. I’ve already thought that through. Breakthroughs like this could be used to further and advance mankind, or they could be used for personal agendas that are not in mankind’s best interests.”

Fischer leaned back, his face regaining more color. He was smiling again and nodding his head, as if he were lecturing and a student just made an important connection.

“That’s right. Instead of transporting goods and people for honest and ethical reasons, the wrong people could transport dangerous material.”

Chase continued the thread. “Illegal drugs could be transported across borders, for example.”

Fischer formed an even larger smile. “Large sums of money could be stolen from a bank vault. In and out without a trace.”

“A terrorist could appear in the Oval Office and blow everybody up.”

“A nuclear device could be delivered to the ten largest cities in North America and detonated on the same day. The list goes on and on.”

“What else, Chase? What other disasters could this breakthrough do to harm mankind?”

“I’ve thought about that, too,” Chase replied. “I’ve been considering the ramifications of this for years. My parents were Catholics, charismatic Catholics, who believed that the spiritual and physical worlds could interact. An example comes to mind: Jacob’s Ladder in the book of Genesis, where there was an actual, physical location here on earth where angels descended from heaven.”

“But one doesn’t need to be a Christian to believe in the convergence of the spiritual world, the metaphysical world, and our world. Isn’t that correct, Chase?”

“Yes, that’s true. Most civilizations from the dawn of mankind have believed that there is a spiritual world that is actually more real than our physical world.”

Fischer allowed those words to float in the air for a few moments before continuing. “What if someone took a journey through a wormhole and brought something back with them—something that they wouldn’t be aware of with their five senses, yet something that is very much alive and ultimately unleashed on an unsuspecting world?”

Chase squinted in disbelief, then took a few moments to reflect on the professor’s last statement. “I remember when I finally graduated with my Ph.D. I thought that I was so smart. I thought I would discover all kinds of amazing answers to things that have plagued mankind for millennia. But I approached them in the physical realm. I remember sitting with my father and discussing this with him shortly after I finished school.”

“What did your father have to add to the conversation? I’m confident he had a perception of reality that was quite different than yours.”

Chase nodded. “He did. He reminded me that our physical world is not so concrete after all. For example, the distance between an atom’s nucleus and its electrons is vast, not to mention the distance between atoms themselves. An electron can orbit as much as 100,000 times the diameter of its respective atom’s nucleus. This, of course, means that solids such as these chairs we’re sitting on are, in reality, made up of more space than matter.”

“That’s correct, Chase. It is the energy given off by the negatively charged electrons being attracted to the pull of the positively charged protons in the nucleus of the atom that causes the structural integrity we perceive when we see and touch solid objects.”

“And then there are parallel dimensions,” Chase continued, wasting no time escalating the conversation to a higher level. “Theoretically, this is where the spiritual world could exist. A sort of parallel universe that is actually more real than our physical world.”

“Okay, Chase, what if a spirit, a spiritual hitchhiker, if you will, who was less than friendly, decided to latch onto a person who was traveling through a wormhole? Do you think that would be possible?”

Chase considered the question, then replied, “I’m not sure, Professor. If a person is transported immediately from point A to point B, how can a spirit latch on and enter our world at the other end?”

Fischer was beaming. He was excited someone else not only understood these matters, but believed they could indeed be realistic. “Listen to me, Chase. May I call you Chase? We do not really have any idea what else is out there, but there is no reason to believe that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe. That would be arrogant and asinine. There is no reason to believe that whatever else is out there will necessarily have to obey the same laws of physics that we do.” Fischer stared and smiled at Chase as his student considered the matter.

“The Bible does say that a day is like 1,000 years, and that 1,000 years are as a day to God, Chase responded. "Although we may experience almost instantaneous transportation through a wormhole, time may not behave at all like we think it should within the wormhole.”

Fischer looked like a new man, one who had just been released from a prison. In a sense, he was. He could now share his secrets with someone else who could comprehend what he was involved with for the past ten years. His colleagues could understand the physical aspects, and he knew peers who could understand the metaphysical aspect, but Chase was the first who he felt had a balanced grasp on both sides of the subject.

“Chase, oh, and you can call me Nick. In fact, call me Nicky. All my friends do. Chase, I need your help.”

Chase leaned back into the table. “That’s what I flew all the way across the country for, Nicky. Just tell me what you need.”

“You obviously understand what I have been up to……"

Well, that’s all folks. Anything more and I would be revealing twists and turns in the plot. Thanks for taking the time to read today’s blog, and check back during the next couple of weeks as we have more great concepts to discuss, such as Hyperspace, the Multiverse, and so muchmore.

Question Posed: No question. There's a lot here. Feel free to leave a comment of your choice.

The Bible and the Theory of Everything

Okay, physicists like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking talked about Reading the mind of God in the context of discovering a Theory of Everything. Yet both found the challenge to be, well, challenging. How can one read the mind of God when you struggle to believe in God? Perhaps there is more to all of this than many of our great minds will like to admit.

But maybe they were onto something. Could it be that a Theory of Everything will need to not only reconcile the science of the very big with the science of the very small, but also include the spiritual realm into this theory. The Bible seems to hint at 7 additional dimensions by seven different words for heaven, and if you add our four-dimensional world that adds up to eleven, the same number of dimensions in string theory. Hmmm……

Let’s take a look at what the Bible has to say about possible wormholes and parallel dimensions. There are scores of references in the Bible (as well as other world religions) that refer to some really crazy stuff that could be explained by physics. And perhaps, physics could learn a thing or two from the Bible. Examples:

Jacob’s Ladder is a ladder where angels ascended and descended back and forth from heaven and earth (Genesis 28:11-19). Another reference is in John 1:51. Could this be a portal to a parallel universe? This could help explain how angels and demons can move in and out of our universe.

While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." (Luke 24:38). Jesus didn’t use the door or walk through the walls, he simply appeared inside the room. Could Jesus have used the Hyperspace dimension to accomplish this? (more on Hyperspace in a future blog)

Elijah and Enoch in the Old Testament never died. They were both escorted to heaven, Elijah in dramatic fashion by horses of fire and a chariot of fire come down from the sky in a whirlwind. If they didn’t use a portal (wormhole) to reach their destination, they’d still be in transit today and would be for countless light years.

The book of Revelation is filled with wild events that hint strongly of open portals from another dimension(s), releasing plagues and woes on earth’s inhabitants.

Question Posed: Do you think a Theory of Everything would need to include spiritual things most civilizations have believed in? If you’re not ready to answer, check back in tomorrow when we discuss the fifth dimension Hyperspace.

The Theory of Everything Part Deux

Just think about it: we live in a world where everything is explained in detail. We know why we act and think the way we do. We understand where we came from and where we are going. All because someone discovered a Grand Unified Theory (GUT), a single equation that would be similar in length to E=MC2.

Theory of Everything (TOE) – In philosophy, a TOE is all-encompassing explanation of nature or reality. In theoretical physics a TOE links together and explains all known fundamental physical phenomena, forces, and matter into one cohesive framework.

Dr. Steven Hawkings, in a series of lectures in the 1990s helped popularize this theory amongst the general population by attempting to unite General Relativity (science of the very big) with Quantum Theory (science of the very small). For the record, Dr. Hawking recently stated he is pessimistic on any such discovery in the immediate future.

Okay, so what are some of the theories floating around out there that physicists are developing to help explain a Theory of Everything.

The Usual Suspects:

String Theory – proposes tiny (ten to the power of -33 centimeters) vibrating, one-dimensional loops called strings constitute the entire universe including everything in it. All strings are identical until they are plucked, and their varying vibrations form all particles in the universe such as electrons, neutrinos, quarks, etc. Most physicists hold the belief this theory takes 11 dimensions for these strings to vibrate.

M-theory – an extension of string theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong. This theory also unifies the five versions of string theory.

Supersymmetry – attempts to link the four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force, and strong nuclear force. The theory states all four were once one force and emerged separately moments after the big bang.

One more note on the Unified Theory. Would this theory need to take into account the spiritual realm. Throughout the history of mankind, most civilizations held the belief of a spiritual world that is more real than our own.

We do not really have any idea what else is out there, but there is no reason to believe that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe. That would be arrogant and asinine. There is no reason to believe that whatever else is out there will necessarily have to obey the same laws of physics that we do. Perhaps a unified theory of everything will need to take into consideration parallel universes where angels and demons dwell and cross back and forth at will. This is entirely possible as we will see once we look at Hyperspace in a future blog. This is indeed a very strange universe we live in.

Next up: Wormholes and Extra dimension in the Bible. Can Creationism and Science support each other?

Question Posed: Do you think it is important that we discover the Theory of Everything. As exciting as it sounds, not every scientist, philosopher, and religious scholar believes it’s important.