Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9490823-20141017021534/@comment-34326521-20141018191044

Bc9661 wrote: Forget theoretical, white holes and worm holes don't exst. Its more a joke than anything. If you flip the rate of time into a negative (meaning time goes backwards), then when you plug that into the Theory of Relativity, the force that gravity pulls with also comes out negative (meaning its pushing out with force, rather than pulling in).

I assume you're talking about the time dilation equation, as the ToR incorporates a lot of equations. Regardless, I've not yet addressed that in any of my classes, so what I'm about to say should be taken with a grain of salt.

You can't actually do that (and I mean mathematically as well), as far as I know. There's only one thing in the Universe that can push things outward - dark energy - and even it is theoretical in nature. Also, you can't just "flip" a variable if you want it to make sense mathematically.

Bc9661 wrote: Its just a "if one Basic Law of Physics is broken, then this one is too" sort of thing.

Thing is, it's not being broken. The Higgs boson gives mass to other particles. Who's to say it can't be manipulated to increase or decrease a particle's mass?

Bc9661 wrote: As for Hawking Radiation, of course its theoretical. Everything to do with black holes is completely theoretical. Have we ever actually been able to closely examine black holes? Nope. Same with quantums. Everything in science is theoretical. Not even the Theory of Relativity is 100% yet.

Not everything in science is theoretical. In fact, most things aren't. They're models - approximations of reality. As for quantum mechanics and such, we actually have observed such phenomena. Negative temperatures (on the Kelvin scale), radioactive decay, and so on.

Bc9661 wrote: Hawking Radiation is a theory based off of the Conservation of Mass Principle, which states that mass cannot be created nor destroyed, only rearranged. Contrary to popular belief, the idea of a black hole consuming the world and growing larger is completely fictional. Black holes absorb mass, but fail to grow in size. They can't be destroying the matter, as stated by the Conservation of Mass Principle, so it must be going somewhere. Hawking Radiation is the explanation for why black holes do not grow in size, and actually shrink over time.

Hawking radiation is an explanation for why they shrink. It's not the only one. I've written an essay on this (which was later turned into a faux documentary) about five years ago, and it was thought that black holes constantly transform their mass into energy because they spin at incredible speeds. The energy is converted into rotational energy.

I'll address your other points later, since you've split them into two posts.