LEARNING MORE ABOUT BLACK HOLES AND DARK MATTER COLLISIONS…
(…from being able to detect and measure their unseen, unfelt gravity waves)

We’ve just learned that a stubbornly dedicated group of astrophysicists, after more than a decade of effort with the latest laser technology, finally succeeded in confirming what Einstein predicted would be a probable by-product of his theory.

That is, they were able to detect and measure unseen and unfelt gravity waves resulting from collisions of Black Holes and Dark Matter billions and billions of ages ago, so far back in space and time that, even at the speed of light, the gravity waves produced by their collision may actually pre-date that Big Bang moment which created what we today call… the Universe.

For most of us such things may conceptually be difficult to understand, especially when it’s about…space…time…and how these relate to…energy…and mass. So for someone who generally has to take his boots off to count up to twenty, that’s definitely the case with us here.

Still, it’s all very intriguing stuff because this scientific breakthrough means we’re learning more about Black Holes and Dark Matter, and how the subject of their collisions raises some interesting speculations in our mind, such as: 1) How far back in space and time did Black Holes and Dark Matter form? 2) What was the force, or forces, which brought them into collision to produce these gravity waves? 3) Was such a collision a singular unique event, or a recurring one? 4) Is our Universe thus the product of just one or derived from multiple such events? 5) Since our Universe is apparently still expanding, are these gravity waves the driving mechanism of its continuing expansion? 6) If so, how long will that expansion continue, and what happens after it stops?

Of course we’re unable to answer such questions, but, to clarify our understanding of it all perhaps using the analogies of a surfer and a bungee-cord’s characteristics is the best way for us to do so. Here’s how we understand it: – That collision, besides making a very loud noise, created huge gravity waves rushing off in all directions, with all the matter of our Universe then riding those waves much like a surfer riding huge ocean rollers. – At some unknown point in space and time those gravity waves will slow then stop, having reached the limits of their bungee-cord “stretch”, and then, begin to contract back toward their moment of origin. – Then, just like any bungee-cord, that contraction will accelerate more and more in that reverse direction. – In the process all those elements and particles of matter, regardless of their dimensions, will be progressively compacted into a Black Hole until they reach a new “critical mass” to ultimately explode with another Big Bang, thus setting off another endless cycle of fission, fusion, fission, etc., in what we’ve come to label and perceive as being… Eternity.

To what extent any of that matters to us, as those nano-micro particles of matter called… humans…we can’t say, other than to note as Einstein once put it…it just goes to show how everything is indeed…relative.

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