ok, this site is really cool: The Electronic Sky
i stumbled on it doing a goole search for the Andromeda galaxy; which i was looking for because i was watching ‘the universe by stephen hawkings… by the way, that is also a very cool dvd! [not quite as cool as the Cosmos DVDs by Carl Sagan, but a definately a close second]
tonight is is rainy here– but i love the rain… i wish we had more of it. maybe i should just move to Seattle…
i developed my own theory of the universe last night [things to do on the weekend- work on a theory of the destruction of the universe]; it is a theory that adds to the belief of inpermanance [as i understand it] by the buddists. i guess it would also fall into the hindu cycle of a Kapha [8.64 trillion years] here it goes:
since most scientits beleve the universe began as a singular point and everything was created from the result of a huge ‘big bang’, where does it all end? all of the galaxies are speeding away from one another at ever increasing speeds- there has to be a limit…
solution: black holes- since these are being created by the colapse of stars in every galaxy every day, they will one day outnumber the remaining stars. as other matter comes close to them, they absorb it and grow ever denser and ever stronger. eventually they will grow big enough to consume an entire galaxy- and then start attracting other galaxies to continually add to their mass- until there are only two black holes left- and they collapse on one antoher… back into a singularity…
of course, this will take hundreds of billions of years to occur- so i think we are ok for a while… [the universe is estimated to be 13-14 billion years old]
if we use the Hindu idea, that woud give us about 4.3 trillion years until the universe quits expanding and starts to begin it’s collapse- i will probably miss that…
so what happens on December 21, 2012?