Don't Look into the Abyss

[dotinthesky]

I think of Paris Hilton as the human equivalent of a Black Hole. Most people who get close to her seem to have their lives derailed, either developing anorexia, drug addiction or psychosis. Or maybe those problems were already there and P. Hilton simply sweats them out. She brings out the extreme in people.

But Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe, on TV just now, has greatly expanded my understanding of Black Holes. They are actually centres of activity in our universe; positive particles shoot from them when they are separated from the negative particles weighed down by the holes; solar systems are born; they are bundles of activity. Why do Black Holes take into themselves the Britneys, Lohans and Nicoles of the Universe? Don't know. Where do they go? Don't ask. What does it all mean? Who can say. Are the solar systems created around Paris Hilton the media jobs that feed off her image, the CD manufactures pumping out copies of her debut album? Or should we feel more hopeful about our culture and expect new life forms in the coming years? It looks promising.

Question to any astrophysicians and philosophers reading this: if we manage to simulate the creation of a black hole on Earth, how long do I have before we are destroyed? (or are we destroyed?) Will I have time to write my last Livejournal post, or will I be caught off guard on the No. 8 bus?

Comments

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

I know the answer to that!...its 8.0000725 secs. So you'd probably be on the stairs of the bus. That's a highly dangerous place--sit downstairs.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It sucks that none of us will be notified before it happens. It will be 8 seconds of wasted knowledge.

[fj.livejournal.com]

And why can't you post from the #8 bus?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Eight seconds is not long enough to log on and write something.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Via your last link and the rabbit hole that is the internet, I just discovered that Kate Bush and I share a birthday and that she is exactly 20 years older than I.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'll be thinking of the hounds of love on your birthday.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

I'll try to remember to play it!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I think of Paris Hilton as the human equivalent of a Black Hole.

*cough*

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Ew.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

That's my usual reaction when I see a photograph of Paris Hilton.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, she's totally gross. Bleh, that sex video was so gross!

[izzybees]

I hate when people say "Britneys, Lindsays, and Nicoles."

Ugh.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Sorry! Point taken and sentence changed. :-)

[live-life-like.livejournal.com]

CSS is the Black Hole!!!

[frankeecymraeg.livejournal.com]

i think nicole ritchie was SO HOT after she lost all that flab, I love skinny skinny girls

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Boyish-looking girls?

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, up to a point, but then she just looked disgusting. I totally don't like skinny, skinny girls. I not only tolerate, but prefer a greater amount of weight on girls than on men.

[olamina.livejournal.com]

However I just read about the Kerr metric, which has to do with the movement of space around black holes. Basically there is the possibility that if you aren't destroyed by the gravity black hole you would go through and land in an alternate dimension similar to the one you just left, in which case you might still have to catch the bus. It just might be going in a different direction...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That's a terrifying thought!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'll be pissed off with God if a black hole destroys us before I get to meet you!