The Sound that we probably are going to never hear in our existance

[PiledriverWalz]

I never thought that I will creat a topic on this section

but I wanted to share with you this video were someone describes how two black holes "copulate" together (the desciption of the scientist made it looks like two black holes love each other ) and what would be the sound that these black holes can send during their act ! It's something that we all never going to see because this is something that will happen in 30 thousand trillions trillions trillions trillions years but this is awesome to know that even space objects will have their intimatie lol. Really cool and interesting video besides the black holes, it's worth to take a watch ! (Timer : around 15:00)

[sndprv]

Fascinating stuff!

According to Wikipedia, it was John Wheeler who first coined the term
"black hole." I attended a lecture he gave around 30 years ago when he visited the UK.
I can't recall what the main theme of the lecture was. I mean, it was about physics,
obviously, but he did speak about black holes, cosmology and quantum mechanics.

I was feeling tired on the evening of the lecture (I was up for most of the previous night
finishing off an assignment I had to hand in that day), but that guy sure kept me awake.
One thing I noticed is that he had an ability to see into every person in the packed lecture
hall, as though he were speaking to each person individually. The only other people I've seen
do that are people with a military/intelligence services background.

[PiledriverWalz]

Fascinating stuff!

According to Wikipedia, it was John Wheeler who first coined the term
"black hole." I attended a lecture he gave around 30 years ago when he visited the UK.
I can't recall what the main theme of the lecture was. I mean, it was about physics,
obviously, but he did speak about black holes, cosmology and quantum mechanics.

I was feeling tired on the evening of the lecture (I was up for most of the previous night
finishing off an assignment I had to hand in that day), but that guy sure kept me awake.
One thing I noticed is that he had an ability to see into every person in the packed lecture
hall, as though he were speaking to each person individually. The only other people I've seen
do that are people with a military/intelligence services background.

Oh wow this is awesome ! Blackholes has always been something facinating, the fact that you can fit everything from the universe in one only single point inside the blackhole is crazy. That's also really mysterious how blackholes were made, it honestly looks like a "defect from space" or a "bug" from space

Did you study physics back then ?

[sndprv]

Did you study physics back then ?

I was a 19-year-old first year theoretical physics student at the time Wheeler visited.
It's a long story but I later veered towards more mathematical subjects during the course
of my studies (before I finally got fed up of being a student).

[PiledriverWalz]

Did you study physics back then ?

I was a 19-year-old first year theoretical physics student at the time Wheeler visited.
It's a long story but I later veered towards more mathematical subjects during the course
of my studies (before I finally got fed up of being a student).

Wow this is really cool ! Too bad you didn't keep going with the studies because physics is really interesting ! (Was it boring at this point ? )

[sndprv]

Wow this is really cool ! Too bad you didn't keep going with the studies because physics is really interesting !

I'll be honest with you. I was ambivalent about going to university in the first place. I felt I wasn't ready yet,
and wasn't sure which degree, exactly, I wanted to do. I visited a few universities and attended interviews,
but withdrew my application. I needed more time to think things through.

The problem I had, though, was that I was living as an unregistered occupant at my father's place and,
obviously, he didn't want the owners of the property to find out that I was staying there. So he insisted
that I reinstate my application and go to university. There were many places available on physics courses
in some universities because not many people wanted to study physics. So I made a rash decision and
chose a theoretical physics degree.

So, that was that. I went to university - in effect - to have a place to live!
(And, to be even more honest, I actually hated university/student life, anyway.)

Was it boring at this point ?

All the physics courses were interesting (some more than others), but the theoretical physics degree course
itself was just impossible, which was why quite a few of us just got fed up by the end of the first year.

The entire course structure must've been designed by academics who were either completely insane or
completely out of touch with the knowledge and skills students have when they start these courses.

What I didn't fully realise before signing up for the course was that it was actually 20 per cent computer
programming assessed. We were expected to learn - in our first year alone - both the Pascal and Fortran
programming languages - and complete assignments on those topics. And this was in the early 1990s before
the 'Windows' operating system was introduced, so we all had to learn MS-DOS in addition to all that.
Hardly fair when (a) you've never touched a computer before in your life before university, (b) this
component of the course started just weeks away from the end-of-year exams, and (c) even my
own personal course tutor had no clue about computer programming (I once went to see him in his
office about this, and he just said : "All I know is how to send e-mail"(!) ) And he was a very intelligent
guy, BTW, who had written papers on black holes and on other weird mathematical physics topics.

And the computing stuff was in addition to the physics assignments, mathematical methods assignments,
statistics assignments, and experimental physics lab reports we had to hand in on a regular basis. Oh, and
of course there was exam revision as well. No, I wasn't expecting the course to be 'easy'. I mean, it was
a university degree course in physics. But it was hardly fair.

So, I later decided to take on more courses in mathematics and, by the end of my studies, I got an undergraduate
qualification in mathematics and just left it at that.