Thursday, March 06, 2008
Crestone
What if we ARE living on an event horizon? Time could just be that, the tide and swirl as everything we see and know is rotating into the infinite. It may be that the past and future are only here with us because of the vortex. If it was a really big vortex maybe there couldn't ever be enough perspective to observe or understand that there was anything beyond the tidal pull. That is what happens when you go swimming in the ocean. Those other little singularities could just be nothing more than bubbles or eddies on the arms of an even larger one. Though what if it is all just one and time and space are all folded and distorted and you're really mostly seeing a mirror, but a mirror which folds through our physical universe.
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There was this great bit of math I read once in Nasa Tech Briefs or something about a set of hallways built around the event horizon of a black hole.
The first "riog" shaped hallway was just outside the event horizon, and as you walked along it, the hallway would curve around the black hole, and you'd see the black hole on the inside, and the universe on the outside.
The second hallway was built right ON the event horizon, and because of the way light tends to travel in a perfect orbit around a black hole at the event horizon (because it ain't getting sucked in, but it can't escape, yah?), THAT hallway would seem to be heading in a straight line, and not curved at all, and it'd have a Hall-of-Mirrors effect, where you would see youself ahead of you and behind you, at a distance of the circumference of the hallway (y'know, the "size" of the event horizon).
The third hallway was built just INSIDE of the event horizon, and that hallway would seem to curve around the UNIVERSE, with the black hole surrounding everything on the OUTSIDE.
Even if they got something wrong with their math (which I think they did, because I think TIME would be distorted even more than the hallway would, and that time stuff isn't really included in it), that's still cool as hell to think about heh.
I mean, right away I started planning on building a hotel like that around a black hole, so folks on their honeymoon could take that "walk around the universe" and stuff, I'm pretty sure people would pay big bucks for that kinda thing ahaha.
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