Is it normal to be irrationally afraid of black holes?

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They're theoretical. I know. And I hope they stay that way. Forever.
Imagine: a big black hole in the sky, growing larger and larger, until finally it reaches you, a huge black circle of nothingness, sucking in light and air. It disintigrates your everything. You are now neither dead nor alive. You're gone.
Whenever I'm in a ride, like space mountain for example, it freaks me out when, say, I start zooming into a big black hole meant to look like one. I remember going through that and thinking, "very funny."

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  • Michael137
    13 years ago

    Black holes do exist but they can only have the same gravity as the star that created them. The only difference is that the mass is more dense so being near one is like being bear to the centre if a star. Given that we're rather close to a star anyway I wouldn't worry.

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  • Dan-the-Van-Vanson
    13 years ago

    WHAT THE FUCK ARE ALL OF YOU TALKING ABOUT?
    JOSEPH SMITH WOULD NEVER LET THAT HAPPEN TO THE MORMON PEOPLE!

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  • Rose83
    13 years ago

    My answer is this.... Yes it is okay and normal to be afraid of the unknown. However, if you ever really truely read your bible, not even having to be a religious person, you would see that God would never allow such a thing to occur. He loves us like children and he will not ever destroy the earth. If you do read the bible you will see that he has plans for the earth in the future. :) I really hope this helps you feel better. You truely have nothing to worry about.

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    • nagasonavimana
      12 years ago

      Oh, I thought your god was going to send all us sinners to the Black Hole hell.

      @Rose83:
      "The point is, I'm right and the only reason I'm right is because this isn't what I'm saying this is all straight from the bible. If these people say I'm wrong then they are not only saying the bible is wrong but that God is wrong and he never is. "

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

      So let me get this straight. If you had been raised in a room with only Mein Kampf to read, you'd be right, Hitler would be right, and anyone who disagreed would be evil kikes and dirty limeys?

      @OP:
      So, I take it, you've heard from level headed sources by now that A) Black Holes Do Exist, B) CERN is trying to create a small one on Earth and C)They're very very certain it would be impossible for the black hole to grow since it'd collapse under its own weight before accumulating enough matter to grow, right? Good.

      Listen, if we're ever lucky enough to get to deep space within your lifetime (highly improbable) just know that the sensors on your kickass spaceship will sense the threshold of the accretion disc well before you get near it. The sun won't explode anytime soon and can't form a black hole. A galactic alignment in 2012 won't increase the gravity of the sun or some other crazy thing because galactic alignment happens every December 19-21 since the dawn of our recognition of it. You're perfectly safe. Just don't watch Event Horizon.

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  • Sparkles
    13 years ago

    The bible is a fairy tale. God is not real. If he was, then he's a terrible person for allowing so many deaths.

    Anyways, it's alright to be afraid of then as they are deadly.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    It's not irrational to fear them. There's a even a theory that invisible and miniature black holes exist. You should look up black holes, wormholes and white holes as they are all connected.

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  • sparklepop
    12 years ago

    What you're saying is true.....to *you*.
    Not everyone believes in God, it's not right to try to impose your beliefs on other people, just the same way you wouldn't like it if people kept telling you God isn't real and the Bible was written by someone who thought "DEAR LORD, I have an idea that will enable me to control people by way of fear!!"

    I find blackholes fascinating C:

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  • limiter
    12 years ago

    Yes if you just read about what a black hole is, you shouldn't be scared anymore.

    All a black hole is is a massive star whose gravity is so strong that at a certain distance from the star, light cannot escape. Look up "Schwarzchild Radius". Not as mysterious as you might think.

    The only way we are even aware of black holes is the way visible celestial bodies move around them, entire galaxies. And we are very, very, very, very, very far away from the center of the Milky Way. Indescribably far. Like 25,000 lightyears far. So if you were going near the speed of light, you could only get there after 25,000 years of travel. After living about 2,000 years I think you can consider yourself a God anyways and be done with the matter.

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  • BoredGuy
    13 years ago

    how about brown holes?

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    • BoredGuy
      13 years ago

      i red the replies above and i LOL'ed for real!
      Just to clear a few things up:
      A. Black holes do exist
      B. You will never "meet" one of them in your life as we are long way from our galaxy center and our star(sun) is practically a teenager in "star years". So no it wont go super nova and explode and create a black hole any time soon.
      C. When mankind ever need to get away from a black hole only an advanced enough technology will make it happen( ability to inhabit other planets and interstellar-intergalactic possibilities). I suspect by then we would either not exist as species or we already have colonized half our galaxy.
      D. There is no God. Yeah i know bummer, but there is an "after life" through your genes and your children.

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  • narbour_harbour
    13 years ago

    I've probably felt that fear before, but there is no need to worry.

    In regards to particle colliders creating man-made black holes that can swallow up the earth, Stephen Hawking says that this is pure rubbish. The weedle, weedle, weedle black holes would have to emit radiation. They are so small that they, in turn, would lose more mass than they could consume. They literally would vanish within a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

    As for the demise of the earth, We'll probably either destroy the world ourselves or the sun will expand so much as to make Earth uninhabitable before anything like that happens.

    @rose83 please take your religious nonsense out of here. Black holes are matters of science, not divine intervention.

    Also, if you read any original translation of the bible, you would see that god is really an asshole. LRN2HEBREW

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  • Rose83
    13 years ago

    Dragona if you ever read your bible, you would know that the rainbow after the flood and the ones we see every day now was created by God after the flood as a promise to mankind that he would never destroy mankind by flood again.

    On the other hand your partially right, he can get mad and he will destroy evil people at Armageddon which you'd also know if you read the bible. However!!!! God is loving, he will not destroy good people. If you are a good person and you follow his guidlines set in the bible and if you do what he wants you to and live your life according to that every day he won't ever allow anything like black holes to kill you. Plus, God is not going to destroy the earth. He says so at Revelation 21:3&4. So seriously. Love God, do what's right not in peoples eyes but in his by following the bible and you'll never have to worry about that.

    The only reason he allows ANY death right now is because of the fact that when adam and eve sinned, they in effect were saying to God that they didn't need him, that they could rule themselves, and of course Satan was happy and the angels all saw this, so, God didn't just destroy and start over, he allowed us humans from that point to try to show if we could or not. Obviously we cannot but some still think so. Anyway, again, with Job the Leper, satan told God that if all the blessings from God were stripped away from his followers that they would turn against him and no longer worship him.... So God again allowed the challenge to happen. In Jobs case, he had everything taken, Satan killed his family, livestock, he lost all his money and Satan struck him with leprosy. Yet Job never turned away from God and in the end God rewarded him with ten times what he lost. That challenge wasn't just put to job though, it was put to all of mankind. So, God is allowing his worshippers to prove that they will still love and follow him even if they lose everything. In reward, God promised at Revelations 21:3&4 that he would give us everlasting life on earth or in heaven. He's loving!

    The point is, I'm right and the only reason I'm right is because this isn't what I'm saying this is all straight from the bible. If these people say I'm wrong then they are not only saying the bible is wrong but that God is wrong and he never is. It's that kind of ignorance and insolence that will get people destroyed at Armageddon.

    I definately want to be on Gods side. Not Satans.

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    • nagasonavimana
      12 years ago

      Let me ask you this...why is your book right and the Vedic Scriptures which (depending on who you ask) are about 500-1500 years older than the Pentateuch (your first five books, in case you didn't know) aren't right?

      Rose...I think that most people who don't own a bible stopped smoking weed and didn't need joint paper anymore. Because I'll tell you the truth, wiping your ass with Corinthians will give you nasty papercuts. Only other thing it's good for (besides kindling).

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  • elasticband
    13 years ago

    Black holes are not theoretical. But in our place in the universe they are incredibly unlikely to happen. There are more scary things if you learn more about the universe. But I don't think you want to know.

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  • dragona
    13 years ago

    But, God did destroy mankind before...remember the flood? And He does allow people free will so in essence,, He kinda allows violence....

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  • lewlew80
    13 years ago

    Lmao

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  • MicrosizeMe
    13 years ago

    Black holes exist. However, it is next to impossible that we will ever encounter one before the sun blows up.

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  • faisoly
    13 years ago

    you dont have to , its part of this Non Knowing Nature if it will effect our beautiful earth it will for all people not only you and i dont think it will this next generations its so far

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  • dwrilesdw
    13 years ago

    Sagittarius A. Look it up. It's in the center of our galaxy. Also you can't live through a black hole. You would simply be crushed. The entire earth would be crushed. If you could imagine an ant taking a crap. The earth would be condensed down to less than .0000000001 of a particle of that piece of ant crap. I would more worried about humans creating a blackhole on earth. CERN already created anti-matter. So it won't be long.

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  • more2c711
    13 years ago

    Black holes do exist in space

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  • Rose83
    13 years ago

    What I said is true. The bible answers the question of why God allows such things as star mentioned to happen. God will NOT let the earth be destroyed by a black hole or otherwise.

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    • TheConsciousElectron
      13 years ago

      Nuclear fission and gravity will not let the earth to be destroyed by a black hole.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Don't listen to rose. God allows war and genocides to happen. He can't stop science. Nevertheless that will never happen because the sun is too small to collapse into a black hole when it dies and even if it did, we'd be dead because of the changing sun as it grows and decreases in size.

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