4.5.10
♥ black holes, the big bang theory, and other geeky quantum physics topics (a different side of me)
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS EXTREMELY GEEKY, NERDY, AND USES MANY BIG SCIENTIFIC WORDS
So, I haven't posted in a week, mostly because I have no clue what to blog about. At this point I feel like I'm just typing into cyberspace (I used to love that TV show cyberchase!!) because I only know of 4 people who read this regularly....Wait, I just got an idea. Cyberspace got me thinking about real space, and spacetime, and quantum physics. (Here comes super geek Margo) Okay, todays topic is going to be black holes, the big bang theory, and other geeky quantum physics topics. I love the concept of black holes, even though it scares most people. But the thing is, people don't realize that our galaxy, along with most and maybe every gallaxy has a supermassive blackhole right in the center. Scientists have gathered this from the movement of stars, and finally discovered compelling evidence to this theory in 2008. Nobody knows what a black hole actually looks like, but they can guess by studies of the radiation the emmit and what surrounds them. This is because black holes emmit no reflection of light whatsoever, hense the name black hole. Now, if you don't know what a black hole is, its pretty much a hole in the universe caused by a deformation or as many peopple would think of it as a "rip" in spacetime which is caused by a very compacted mass, much like the "big bang". I know it sounds corny, but the big bang can best be explained through song:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
(Theme song to one of my old favorite TV shows, The Big Bang Theory)
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
So here are some artists' and scientists' renderings of the view of a black hole:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
This is what is believed to be the path of a black hole through the Milky Way Galaxy (that's where we live, not a candy bar)
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Heres the explanation for this one:
This artistic image is actually the signature of a supermassive black hole in the centre of distant galaxy M84 - based on data recently recorded by Hubble's new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). Very near black holes the force of gravity is so strong that even light can not escape ... but the presence of a black hole can also be revealed by watching matter fall into it. In fact, material spiraling into a black hole would find its speed increasing at a drastic rate. These extreme velocity increases provide a "signature" of the black hole's presence. STIS relies on the Doppler effect to measure gas velocity rapidly increasing to nearly 240 miles per second within 26 light years of the centre of M84, a galaxy in the Virgo Cluster about 50 million light years away. The STIS data show that radiation from approaching gas, shifted to blue wavelengths left of the centreline, is suddenly redshifted to the right of centre indicating a rapidly rotating disk of material near the galactic nucleus. The resulting sharp S-shape is effectively the signature of a black hole estimated to contain at least 300 million solar masses.
(source: http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/apod/ap970516.html)
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
And well... then there's this:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Here's a cool website where you can see more amazing NASA astronomy pictures:
http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/apod/archivepix.html
Now, alot of people fear the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) or also well known as the "ohemgee we r all gonna die cuz of dis blackh0le machi3n in sw3d3n!!1!!!11!!" This machine is not what every naive kid says it is. It can make amazing scientific discoveries about black matter and the possibility of a black hole are pretty much 1 in a million(probably even a smaller possibility) and even if this does create a black hole, they would be microscopic and immediately die out! This can also best be explained through song:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
EDIT: Okay, so I found another amazing song by the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, I know, makes no sense) workers explaining the insane antics of people believing that the LHC will cause a black hole which will destroy the Earth:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Also, it's really silly that everyone thinks the world is going to end 2012, just because the Mayans say so. There is no scientific evidnce to it at all, and I did a report on the Mayans once, they also siad that a big monster would come and eat the world every 52 days...yea.
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
And finally, just to prove that quantum physisists can have lot's of fun, a live performance of the CERN LHC rap:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Gosh, I'd love to work at CERN...
And yes, I have memorized all (EDIT: All, not including the one about black holes) songs mentioned in this post.
Geeky Margo, out.
☮ ♥ :)
Margo
So, I haven't posted in a week, mostly because I have no clue what to blog about. At this point I feel like I'm just typing into cyberspace (I used to love that TV show cyberchase!!) because I only know of 4 people who read this regularly....Wait, I just got an idea. Cyberspace got me thinking about real space, and spacetime, and quantum physics. (Here comes super geek Margo) Okay, todays topic is going to be black holes, the big bang theory, and other geeky quantum physics topics. I love the concept of black holes, even though it scares most people. But the thing is, people don't realize that our galaxy, along with most and maybe every gallaxy has a supermassive blackhole right in the center. Scientists have gathered this from the movement of stars, and finally discovered compelling evidence to this theory in 2008. Nobody knows what a black hole actually looks like, but they can guess by studies of the radiation the emmit and what surrounds them. This is because black holes emmit no reflection of light whatsoever, hense the name black hole. Now, if you don't know what a black hole is, its pretty much a hole in the universe caused by a deformation or as many peopple would think of it as a "rip" in spacetime which is caused by a very compacted mass, much like the "big bang". I know it sounds corny, but the big bang can best be explained through song:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
(Theme song to one of my old favorite TV shows, The Big Bang Theory)
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
So here are some artists' and scientists' renderings of the view of a black hole:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
This is what is believed to be the path of a black hole through the Milky Way Galaxy (that's where we live, not a candy bar)
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Heres the explanation for this one:
This artistic image is actually the signature of a supermassive black hole in the centre of distant galaxy M84 - based on data recently recorded by Hubble's new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). Very near black holes the force of gravity is so strong that even light can not escape ... but the presence of a black hole can also be revealed by watching matter fall into it. In fact, material spiraling into a black hole would find its speed increasing at a drastic rate. These extreme velocity increases provide a "signature" of the black hole's presence. STIS relies on the Doppler effect to measure gas velocity rapidly increasing to nearly 240 miles per second within 26 light years of the centre of M84, a galaxy in the Virgo Cluster about 50 million light years away. The STIS data show that radiation from approaching gas, shifted to blue wavelengths left of the centreline, is suddenly redshifted to the right of centre indicating a rapidly rotating disk of material near the galactic nucleus. The resulting sharp S-shape is effectively the signature of a black hole estimated to contain at least 300 million solar masses.
(source: http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/apod/ap970516.html)
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
And well... then there's this:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Here's a cool website where you can see more amazing NASA astronomy pictures:
http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/apod/archivepix.html
Now, alot of people fear the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) or also well known as the "ohemgee we r all gonna die cuz of dis blackh0le machi3n in sw3d3n!!1!!!11!!" This machine is not what every naive kid says it is. It can make amazing scientific discoveries about black matter and the possibility of a black hole are pretty much 1 in a million(probably even a smaller possibility) and even if this does create a black hole, they would be microscopic and immediately die out! This can also best be explained through song:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
EDIT: Okay, so I found another amazing song by the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, I know, makes no sense) workers explaining the insane antics of people believing that the LHC will cause a black hole which will destroy the Earth:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Also, it's really silly that everyone thinks the world is going to end 2012, just because the Mayans say so. There is no scientific evidnce to it at all, and I did a report on the Mayans once, they also siad that a big monster would come and eat the world every 52 days...yea.
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
And finally, just to prove that quantum physisists can have lot's of fun, a live performance of the CERN LHC rap:
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆¸.•*¨*`•.☆
Gosh, I'd love to work at CERN...
And yes, I have memorized all (EDIT: All, not including the one about black holes) songs mentioned in this post.
Geeky Margo, out.
☮ ♥ :)
Margo
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