/sci/ - Science & Math

Astronomy has been my passion ever since I was a young boy.
I wish to have a career related to it. What major(s) would best help me achieve that goal?

OP Here

>>2125158
When blackholes collide they send out a shockwave of energy dubbed background microwave radiation, or some shit like that. There is evidence of it.

>>2125365
They suck in everything around them, no exceptions.

Had a thought last night while I was in the shower....

those particles theorised to escape a black hole.... If we could find a way to collect these particles and get them back to earth, could they not be used in the creation of hover engines or in the aid of launching space, and other air craft

now, I know that finding and collection of the aforementioned particles would be difficult at best, im just wondering if there is any plausibility to my thought?

worm holes, do you think they could exist /sci/ ?

it occurred to me that perfecting them is the only way we're ever going to meet alien lifeforms considering that the closet life supporting planet is 20 light years away, and traveling faster than the speed of light is impossible

but then again i once said teleportation would be impossible to perfect considering that it would require ripping and closing up the whole of space and time, which if it went wrong even once would create a black hole and consume everything around it

please give feedback

>>1845487
oh, man, not real chance. everyone say: MONSTER BLACK HOLE POWERFUL AMAZING POKEMON WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING IN COSMOS WITH THE EVIL BOTTLENECK. hazardous black holes are really far away from us.

Dudes, super bad article on the "uselessness" of Theoretical Physics as a junk science. Hilarious! This stupid backwater hick even tells them to "go get a real job", and dismisses Sir Roger Penrose as an useless dolt.
Just take a look, I figured I would invite you guys to the comments section.

http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/06/01/opinion/doc4c04756303926753836832.txt

Op, I've decided to hang myself due to this.

I'm too incompetent to live in such a vast Universe filled with unimaginable, unseen beauty. I shall see the afterlife, which indeed is a spectacle that I no longer have to wait for.

Dearest /sci/,

How can there ever be an answer to the big question -- how did we get here?

No matter how many times you answer the question, every answer MUST lead to another question. For example:

Q: How did the Earth get here?
A: It formed from the dust ring around our Sun.
Q: Then how did the Sun and the dust ring get here?
A: Leftover stuff from a supernova collected together by gravity.

[... and so on until you inevitably reach the following ...]

Q: Then what caused the big bang?

And even if you think you have some sort of answer to that question, you'll have to follow up with a question about what caused the vacuum fluctuations or whatever... And even if you can answer that with something about "nothingness" being unstable, then you'll have to ask what makes nothingness unstable...

So, what "answer" could ever possibly end the endless chain of questions?

How can one destroy a black hole?

Would swallowing a large sum of anti matter destroy it?