The intersection of these two articles has me absolutely buzzing with ideas:
1) “Do Naked Singularities Break the Rules of Physics?”
(Scientific American, February, 2009)
Physicists have yet to figure out what exactly happens at a singularity: matter is crushed, but what becomes of it then? The event horizon, by hiding the singularity, isolates this gap in our knowledge… Whatever happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
Yet a growing body of research calls this working assumption into question. Researchers have found a wide variety of stellar collapse scenarios in which an event horizon does not in fact form, so that the singularity remains exposed to our view. Physicists call it a naked singularity. Matter and radiation can both fall in and come out. Whereas visiting the singularity inside a black hole would be a one-way trip, you could in principle come as close as you like to a naked singularity and return to tell the tale.
If naked singularities exist, the implications would be enormous and would touch on nearly every aspect of astrophysics and fundamental physics. The lack of horizons could mean that mysterious processes occurring near the singularities would impinge on the outside world. Naked singularities might account for unexplained high-energy phenomena…
2) “Easter Surprise: A Quantum Hologram of Christ’s Resurrection?”
(Koinonia House — Chuck Missler, 2008)
In 2004, Dame [Isabel] Piczek [a Hungarian trained particle physicist and internationally renowned monumental artist] became fascinated by the total absence of distortion of the Shroud [of Turin] image, a physical impossibility if the body had been lying on solid rock. Piczek’s work strongly suggests that the image of Jesus was projected as a quantum hologram onto the cloth as His body underwent the process of Resurrection.
“The entire Resurrection process is akin to the Big Bang creation of the universe when something was created from nothing,” explains Piczek. “You can read the science of the Shroud, such as total lack of gravity, lack of entropy (without gravitational collapse), no time, no space—it conforms to no known law of physics.”
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Dame Piczek contends that the image was created in an infinitesimally small fraction of a second and its formation was absent of the effects of gravity.
Dame Piczek explains the complicated physics behind the image on the Shroud: “As quantum time collapses to absolute zero (time stopped moving) in the tomb of Christ, the two event horizons (one stopping events from above and the other stopping the events from below at the moment of the zero time collapse) going through the body get infinitely close to each other and eliminate each other (causing the image to print itself on the two sides of the Shroud).
In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in space-time, most often an area surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. Light emitted from beyond the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything that passes through the horizon from the observer’s side appears to freeze in place.
Attempting to make an object approaching the horizon remain stationary with respect to an observer requires applying a force whose magnitude becomes unbounded (becoming infinite) the closer it gets.
The description of black holes given by general relativity is known to be only an approximation, and it is expected that quantum gravity effects become significant near the vicinity of the event horizon. It is this apparent suspension of gravity that underlies Dame Piczek’s analysis.
“According to the nature of event horizons the dead body must have left its image on the two surfaces of the event horizons. At the time of the explosion (when time stopped) of the event horizons these images were ejected onto both sides of the Shroud, with the body hovering parallel to the event horizons. This explains why the image shows a dead man, not the risen body, and also explains why the image is negative (went from a positive body image to the negative image like a camera film negative). This indicates how the image got onto the cloth.”
If confirmed, this discovery is expected to yield a totally new perspective on the very “singularity” attributed to the Creation of the universe in the first place.
Part I here. Extra credit: Why is it called Mmass anyway? And if they can’t figure this one out, then who’s to say there’s not a quantum explanation for transubstantiation?
[...] That something is, in fact, a someone: YHWH. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The great ‘I am’. The Creator. The Living God. His mode of rescuing us from the physical-literal as well as spiritual pit of chaos (hell) is His Son, Y’Shuah the Christ (king) who descended there on our behalf, then returned. For more on the related subject or black holes, and how they may relate to the resurrection of Jesus, see here and here. [...]
By: The Fold and the Flock: The Pinwheel Supernova and the August 23rd Earthquakes « New Wineskins on September 11, 2011
at 4:01 pm
[...] is, the idea of “falling” or “being raised up” may be a phenomenon taking place along a dimension of which we are una…. It’s just as dangerous as a two-year-old walking along the edge of a cliff and perceiving no [...]
By: Cutting the Rope « New Wineskins on August 10, 2009
at 9:37 am
[...] Thinking about the spreading of blessings and curses ‘back’ across time reminded me of this and this. [...]
By: Choosing One of Two Paths « New Wineskins on May 5, 2009
at 9:25 am
Let me also add that I’ll have no truck with attempts to relabel miracles as “naked singularities.” That may be a useful theoretical model, but I prefer to think of miracles as nothing more or less than visual parables.
[Some types of scientists will always strive to interpret their findings so as to get beyond/outside of God (see my next post). As long as we recognize that the universe itself is a miracle -- including any clever names they come up with for its various phenomena, not to mention our minds that are able to perceive/analyze it -- then God will have plenty of room to go what He does best, namely everything. -ed.]
By: Patrick on April 14, 2009
at 3:23 pm
[...] So step back with me, then do it again. (Lest I ever sound ‘preachy’, please note that sometimes I write as much to advise and admonish myself as anyone else.) And when you think you’ve stepped back far enough, step back even further. Having done that, you still aren’t even close to the vantage of the all-powerful, all-knowing, utterly loving God who IS before and outside of time, space and everything and oh-by-the-way can bend it to His wil…. [...]
By: Politics in the Context of Everything Else « New Wineskins on April 14, 2009
at 3:21 pm
Now I feel like Horshack in “Welcome Back, Kotter” (and yes, I’m dating myself). ‘Tis okay; I’ll still be in the back of the class, waving my hand in the air and saying “ooh, ooh, Mr. Kotter!,” because the way you segued from capital M to lowercase m in “mass” is simultaneously funny and profound. I don’t have my copy of the catechism handy, but I daresay the whole “communion of saints” idea adds considerably to any mass — in either sense.
[I'm hoping one of my more studious Catholic readers can dissect that one, Patrick. I honestly meant what I said in the preface: I have only the vaguest notion that this stuff looks important. I have NO idea what it means! -ed.]
By: Patrick on April 14, 2009
at 3:20 pm