>>14048739I think that's the joke given that he's also not helping himself with the non existent topics he chose too.
>>14046293>what is it about black holes that makes them the number one most popular popsci topic of discussion amongst the brainlet soience fangoys? It is sort of like how musicians and poets will use and refer to a "shadow" in many of their works despite a shadow having no actual phenomenal existence and being defined by everything else that it isn't. It's appearance and mysterious nature of "existence" is "made real" simply because it sounds alluring. Or as you put it:
>It's amazing to think about how we know so much, and yet at the same time so little, about black holes.And that is the entertainment value of it all. The bread and circus show for the "intellectuals".
See only instead of words they used a telescope and (name something that isn't the black hole/dark matter) to end up defining it. Repeating the premise of one asking "okay so what IS this thing you're talking about"? And also repeating the premise of having millions of dollars being thrown at the same question is always nice too.
>>14046399If light is an emission then my hand must also "emit" water when it makes waves in a pond
>Oh no because light is not that type of wave it's the type of magical wave that travels in nothing which would negate the premise of it being "nothing" in the first placeSome people actually believe it has a speed too.
>>14046409>>14046323>>14046346>Yes they are as observable as a shadow and we defined them using everything else with the actual properties to measure (such as the light used to create the shadow in the first place),Professional shadow chasers.