Also on the Internet, “Sky and
Telescope”, labeling itself, “THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO ASTRONOMY” reports:
A record-breaking black hole lurking at the
center of a compact galaxy weighs about 17 billion Suns, a new study finds. Now
astronomers are wondering: how did such a small galaxy come to harbor a
leviathan?
Are they really? Wondering?
Isn’t it obvious to a ten year-old? Sorry, no offence to the ten-year
olds.
And then I remembered the
sentiments about the scientists I expressed in my book DELUSIONS—Pragmatic
Realism. Garbage in, garbage out. Apparently this applied not only to
electronic computers by to the electric impulses gallivanting in scientists’
heads. Just how do the scientists imagine the Big Bang happen. From a Baby Bang
in the middle of a great void?
For a black hole to “weigh”
about 17 billion Suns, it must have grown from an equally gargantuan
mega-galaxy over billions (and billions?) of years. Perhaps longer than our
present, visible Universe exists. Perhaps the origin of our World wasn’t such a
big bang after all. Perhaps there are many bigger hiccups still to come. Think
about it. Seventeen billion suns? And… there may well be many bigger ones.
I wonder what will our
astronomers say to that.
PS. While shivering at the
thought of a 17 billion Sun type black hole, let us not forget that the, so
called, matter is 99.99999999999% empty space. (Read my book, I didn’t make it
up). Under those circumstances, the gargantuan black hole might not be so
gargantuan after all.
I just love our scientists,
don’t you?
The only thing that is billions
of times bigger than our Sun is the dollars they spend on their research
facilities. On the other hand, isn’t money also imaginary? Perhaps it, too, it
is just a delusion?
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