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Things like this make me very skeptical that the accepted model is correct.
by beastman82 12y ago
Things like this make me very skeptical that the accepted model is correct.
- privong 12y ago> Things like this make me very skeptical that the accepted model is correct. To which "accepted model" are you referring – the cosmological model for the Universe, the determination of black hole masses, the formation and growth of supermassive black holes, or something else? As @nilkn notes, this discovery is in conflict with existing models of the formation and growth of (some) supermassive black holes, which is a reason this paper is in Nature.
- kordless 12y agoI'll say it. We're running in a virtual machine. There.
- nfoz 12y ago...and I get the eery feeling sometimes that it's running Windows 95.
- colechristensen 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
- cocoablazing 12y agoThe usefulness of the HP is principally in the application of the aDS/cft duality to otherwise intractable calculations. It doesn't have anything to do with the universe being virtual or computable. Perhaps you are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics.
- nilkn 12y agoBecause of its mass, its luminosity, or its age? Several black holes have already been identified with masses of this magnitude. However, it seems that the age of this black hole is indeed problematic, as indicated by the article: > For the black hole to grow to such a staggering size in less than a billion years, the astronomers posit, it must have been pulling in interstellar mass from its surroundings at the maximum rate the whole time. Even so, the radiation of the quasar formed by the black hole should have started to limit that mass accumulation before such a size was reached.