Well, I was searching to see if this was already made, but the searches didn't show a thread with my idea so here it is. I am making this thread so we can have a typical tavern discussion thread for all things science! Basically, a thread for everything science! Ranging from discussions about laws and theories, scientific debate, breakthroughs, discussion about new scientific breakthroughs, certain scientists/philosophers, and all that good stuff! So go out there and let out your inner science! ;P To get us going somewhere I'll start: what do you think the future holds for technology? I think our knowledge will allow us to overcome the obstacles thrown at us in the future, I mean, we have discovered so much and have come so far!
What is a white giant? In all my courses on Astronomy I have never heard of that term. Do you mean big hot blue stars? The very large ones are so hot that yes, they appear white in the visible spectrum (Because they radiate almost even amounts of the visible spectrum).
Oh read the Wikipedia article. Guess it's just one of those public names, but not actually used in science.
Actually the rate of expansion is increasing.
Believed to be. Don't shut out the other theories, as a lot of the proof also points to a maximum size.
If black holes just keep sucking in energy and matter will the entire universe be sucked into them eventually?
Black holes do SUCK in stuff, as in the movies. It is possible to orbit black holes. Think of how the planets orbit the Sun, and you get a better idea. Only objects that pass the Schwarzschild radius are sucked in permanently, and usually its only a few kilometers big. Compared to the size of the universe, it is actually VERY hard to fall into a blackhole.
no because they eventually fade away, and the universe is expanding at such a fast rate,
If Hawkings is right, then blackholes disintegrate after a few trillion years. That is pretty similar to eternity on our time scales.
Black holes do suck you in from an infinite distance, just as anything with mass does, but it is a negligible effect. The Schwarzschild radius and event horizon are just stages at which the effect becomes impossible to resist.
Indeed, but taking into consideration ideal conditions, if the I continued to decrease the distance between, say, my hand and a book, would not he magnitude of electrostatic force approach infinity?
You are forgetting what you are doing. You are pushing a book. Since there is something on the other side of the book, you are compressing it. Once the compressing force gets to a certain point, the book will be crushed flat.
