Witness! A giant Black Hole, pulling in all matter!

2006 was an action packed and exciting year for all of us in America, and around the world. The Apacalypse, as predicted by prophets, has never seemed so imminent.
Yesterday, here at Xomba, I made mention of the UFO reported at Chicago's O'Hare Field. Since I received some interest in that article, today I shall expand!
Many of us had the pleasure, in 2006 of viewing the 20/20 presentation, "Last Days". The show's resolve was to analyze and discuss the 8 "Top Ways" that the world might end, in our lifetime, or ten thousand years down the road. They seemed fairly certain that 10,000 years was about the most we could hope for.

It was a devastating but optimistic look into everything from gamma ray bursts, in which a star in our galaxy collapses upon itself, emitting radiation greater than, for a small part of a second, all the other energy in the universe (such a burst would destroy all life on Earth, but hasn't happened within the last several billion years, so is viewed as "unlikely") to massive, super intelligent robot creatures of our own design, who might turn on us, and theoretically eliminate the Earthlings for their own diabolical purposes..

Another of the "ways" concerned itself with giant asteroids plunging through, like the one which whirled past closely, during the summer of 2006. An impact from an asteroid just larger than that recent close-call would be sufficient to end it all.

That same asteroid is due again 1n 2029 (Friday, April 13), to pass, even closer this time, within the orbits of our communication satellites. And oddly, the same asteroid will again pass, even closer, on April 13, 2036. They indicated, at 20/20 that there are currently enough scientists working on this dilemma to staff 1/5 the McDonald's Fast Food restaurants in the world.

Well, my friend, if and when it does end, my personal hope is that we will finish with thankfulness, and decorum, utilizing all the positive virtues we have learned over the years, and in a way which we, looking back, might view as "beautiful" .

We might be thankful for the time we had. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world!"

Where am I going with all this? I'm going to segue to one of my very favorite old blogs, "There might be a future for time travel."

To wit:
There might be a future for time travel. Suppose for example that time is not, as we think, a constant flow from moment to moment, but rather a series of PULSES, as close and as rapid, in infinity, and as extreme to the imagination, as light is fast,and the universe is is vast; fast and close, and, perhaps, filled with moment! If these pulses could be uncovered, and studied, there might be a future for time travel.

Professor Albert Einstein

Einstein, some say, was limited by his adherence to human preception as a basic unit. Since the speed of light is finite, the theory is that we could catch and overtake the light from past events, turn about, and look into the past! But this is not a real phenomenon, only an APPARENT phenomenon. It only SEEMS that we have traveled into the past.
Similarly, Doctor Einstein, suggests an OVAL Shaped Universe, quite finite, and conceivable. Again, he is held back by his humanity.
Time. There was no beginning to time, it's an absolute. It was ALWAYS there! Go back as far as you can... only the beginning!! The Universe was ALWAYS here! And to the future, will time end? NO! It goes on, never ending, forever.
And such is Space. The potential for measurement, and occupation - it doesn't end. Try to imagine the farthest reaches that light, or man's imagination could ever reach. Let your imagination run wild, go to the farthest reaches, the Einsteinian edge; at this point, perhaps no stars, no black holes, no matter, only space! How can there be an edge? Space is an absolute! What's on the other side? More of the same!

I once told someone what I thought about the beginning of the Universe. No Big Bangs, no Black Holes but rather, unlimited space, filled with simple hydrogen atoms. Where the hydrogen atoms came from is anyone's guess. Over unimaginable millenia, odd, non-conforming hydrogen atoms, collided with similar anomalies, over time , forming all matter, and all energy.

Here's to a great 2007!