Scientists find 'black holes' at sea: Whirlpools from which nothing can escape-not even water

[snagglepuss]

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Black holes are tears in the fabric of space-time that pull in everything that comes too close to them.

Nothing that gets sucked in can escape, not even light.

Now, scientists believe they have found features of these black holes here on Earth, in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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Some of the largest ocean eddies in this region are mathematically equivalent to the mysterious black holes of space, according to researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Miami.





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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. "A black hole is a tear in the fabric of space-time

that pulls in everything that comes too close to it. Nothing that gets sucked in can escape, not even light..."

WTF?

Correct me if I am wrong, but as well as scientists know a quantum singularity is not a tear in the space time continuum but a large amount of mass in an infinitesimally small point; which pulls in matter and doesn't release it.



It's an interesting idea on water currents.

[Volaris]

8. What's more interesting (to me, anyway) is what if the model is reversed?...

what if "the void" of space-time actually behaves like a fluid medium...

It could explain much...

[NBachers]

2. Well, this sounds interesting, but I'm waiting for some follow-up information

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. See also (from a month ago; don't know why the Mail is late)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/122821823
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122821891
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122822022

The 'not even water can get out' isn't actually true. Otherwise these would be growing forever, and swallowing the entire ocean. It's just that very little tends to gets out, most of the time, so they remain intact for a long time.

The paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.2352

[dimbear]

6. Have to check the details, but the water either ends up in Atlantis or Pellucidar.

Wait.......just in..........late entry: Lemuria.

[tclambert]

4. The exaggeration is so strong, no hyperbole can escape it.

[silvershadow]

7. LOL

[thefool_wa]

11. <clap>

nicely done!

[nilram]

13. Yes, a tear in the very fabric of rhetoric.

[Rain Mcloud]

5. My fatigue is strong therefore i reach the inescapable conclusion that i shall take a nap.

Zz.

[nikto]

9. Send in The Seaview imediately--It's the only way to be sure...

But will we like what we find?

[Octafish]

14. Lee! Launch the Flying Sub!

Irwin Allen was TOPS!

[nikto]

15. I gotta' get me one of these...

[Octafish]

16. I want one, too. For now, that's my new screen saver.

Unable to find the exact quote, so I must paraphrase:

"I don't see why this nation cannot have a personal recreational submarine industry."
-- Vice President Spiro T. Agnew



It was one of those things that got in my head as a youngster, courtesy of the smallest book in my granddad's library:
"The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew."

[tavernier]

10. Finally the answer

to my missing sock and earring mates. I knew it had to be something logical.

[mikekohr]

12. Could we send one to the Republican House caucus? nt