Re: So like, How did horizon not age-

OHHH! I was thinking it had to do with her being stuck in a black hole. Wait, so does that mean her son might be dead? 

@Koochi-Q They actually have images of a blackhole now and some fairly accurate artist renderings of them.

They are fairly trippy to look at. It's true you do not see the singularity but you can see the outline of the blackhole via the accretion disk (if the blackhole has one). Entering a blackhole or even going near one would not be fun with our current understanding of universe and technology. Blackholes have a ton of radiation around them, you would be cooked alive almost instantly without some technology that could protect you from the radiation. 

Fun fact they estimate that most of the gold in the universe comes from 2 neutron stars colliding. They actually believe most elements heavier than iron formed this way. If you have a gold anything, there is a good chance it was created when 2 neutron stars merged at some point... Kind of a trip because when 2 neutron stars merge they likely form a blackhole... So you're likely holding the scraps from the formation of a blackhole.

@DarthValtrexWell as far as I know it's only 1 'real' image of a black hole. The one that got in the news a while back was still the composite of multiple images spruced together. Even that one was done with gravitational lensing for the most part to 'see' the black hole.

Artist renderings have been around almost as long as the internet itself so that's nothing to go by :P I've seen the most accurate renderings from like 2 decades ago which didn't hold up but were thought to be fairly accurate at that time. Nowadays it's just always a black ball sucking the mass and dust from either a star, planet or spacedust...

Entering would be almost impossible. Even with our limited understanding of how they work we already know that. So far not even quantum theories can't predict or even tell us how to get close without being spaghetified, let alone die by the amount of radiation as you said.

Yep, read that years ago. They're still on the fence about that, but it looks really plausible. Matter of fact as a sidenote, there was a new study published either last month or in the last 2 months that may hold new theories that black holes aren't even actual holes... or round...

On the matter of light protons, it depends how you look at it. If we could see it, we would see that light protons move at the speed of light... but if you are the proton, because you move at that speed... time basically stands still for them. So a ray of light can both be here with me now and also lightyears away in that 1 instance... if quantum mechanics is to be believed. But since middle school I've always been more interested in neutrinos after I learned about them. Especially years later when I 'learned' that it's been hypothesized that they move faster than the speed of light!

@Koochi-Q Some of the artist renderings were done by physicist so there are some really accurate renderings floating around. Yes the image of the M87 is sort of a cluster of multiple images. It was basically a network of radio telescopes connected together by computers to create one big radio telescope. But it's still an image in the sense of it, it's an accurate depiction of the accretion disk.

This is a great animation of what an accretion disk would likely look like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Psuz7u5OI

Some of the animations you can find online were also created by super computers running various physic models and what not.

It's really interesting stuff. I think the issue with blackholes is that our current understanding of physics and math in general just can't explain them. What makes it really difficult is that we can not make observations of the singularity. But keep in mind physics is only about 321 years old and relativity is less than 100 years old. It's much easier to explain the visible universe because you can test theory against observations and so on. You can't really do that with a singularity.

Sir Isaac Newton was more than likely one of the smartest men to have existed. Actually I'm sure there have been other smarter people to have existed, but they were not known about, did not have access to an education or had 0 interest in physics. So much potential goes wasted on our planet because people simply don't have access to an education or the time to get one due to poverty. It's really sad. I can only imagine what we would have accomplished as a planet if everyone had access to a basic education and opportunities at higher education.

I can't wait for James Webb Space Telescope to launch and become active, it will give us a better understanding of the universe.

@nicimang Yes, Horizon's son is dead, which is why she's trying to find a way to time travel.

She's Scottish. "Ach, dinnae fash yersel" is definitely a Scottish phrase, and wee beasties, barnpots and numpties ...

@Lord_Scorpion34 Horizon is very much Scottish. 

For an Irish take on "scientist lady in a character-driven FPS", you can look at Moira from Overwatch. 

@Lord_Scorpion34

Ach, dinnae fash yersel - calm down
wee beasties - small animals often wild, maybe ferocious
barnpots - crazy people
numpties - idiots

JFYI If a Scottish person calls you "a wee boabie" they're calling you a (rhymes with sick) :D

@EdwardDLuffy  It's bampot but yeah spot on explanation.

Most of its glaswegian specifically. 😛