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Comment by thewoodenwand on March 26, 2012 at 6:37pm

And why do atheists, theists and reactionaries of all types keep requiring "proof".

No proof is required to experience gravity (but falling from a plane and BOOM it seems to disappear), live (but fall asleep and parts of your life seem to be missing), die (but while severly sedated and you could be dead for years), to understand simple concepts seems easy no proof required (one hundred years ago no one understood TV), proof is what an uneducated mind requires to convince oneself of what they are experiencing NOW. Creationist will be the simple minded people of the future like the millions for thousands of years who thought the world was flat. you could never have explained a spherical earth to cavemen, (the Greeks figured it out and dtermined the size of the Earth by the shadow cast down a well 2300 years ago, no one listened.)

Comment by Jason Fleming on March 26, 2012 at 6:28pm

I'm not sure about the black hole think. I'm not a theoretical physicist.

But "Yes, we are 98.4% chimpanzee!  Our scientists prove it!" is an erroneous statement. The correct version would be that we share 98.4% (assuming that number is accurate) of our genetic code with a common ancestor to the chimpanzee. I'm not a geneticist either, but it would seem to me that simply comparing sequence of four simple proteins between the two species pretty much settles it. Its either true, or one hell of a conspiracy.

I'm not a monkey's uncle, more like his cousin. (or ape rather, monkeys have tails)

Comment by thewoodenwand on March 26, 2012 at 6:22pm

The science and our knowledge of Black holes has increased exponentially. The event horizon not only causes the energy in them to evaporate it is also its own 2D world. It is capable of trapping information and entropy in a way we may never understand. It is now believed the "space" between the event horizon and the singularity is "regular space". Many previously observed black holes have been found to be quasars and other types of stars that also absorb light but expel energy in huge amounts at their poles. To understand the Idea of (or theory) singularities of infinite gravity are creating entire new Universes one must assume many things. One a hole to another dimension takes place, two other dimensions exist, three the sever gravity has the power to "unroll" curled up dimensions that are stuck in a sub-quantum size loop in our Universe.

Comment by Richard ∑wald on March 26, 2012 at 11:38am

"Still, "scientists" will persist in claiming that a mere black hole within a galaxy can produce such a "universe"."

Do you have a cite for this?