RoyLennigan

the basis of observation is that the redshift from radiation at the edge of the universe is increasing. that means that it is getting farther and farther away. actually, everything at a substantial distance is showing an increase in redshift, leading scientists to theorize that the distance between all objects in the universe is increasing.

children are able to think quicker, and learn things faster than adults, but they do not have experience or wisdom by which to make accurate assumptions. a person's intelligence usually hinges on how/what they learned and the kind of environment in which they learned/lived in during childhood years.

time is a measurement of 'distance' through the fourth dimension. saying time doesnt exist is the same thing as saying the meter doesnt exist. you can dispute the accuracy of time, but you cannot dispute that there is a fourth dimension. there is just as much probability that time is an illusion as there is that the spacial dimensions are illusions.

thanks, this is really interesting!

time is not a physical movement (or at least all evidence points to it not being physical in the sense that we know). the first three dimensions are physical, the 4th, time, we obviously dont have a sense that deals with it and so we cannot see if we are going 'forwards'. the physical world relates to what we can view with our 5 senses. since we cannot view time with any of our 5 senses, it is not physical. but it is still a dimension through which we, and all things, move.

time is another dimension in which we are travelling, though a very different one. we travel up, down, side to side in the three dimensions that we can see. we travel [forward] through time. it is theorized (though with no physical evidence) that all particles have an opposite particle which moves backwards in time relative to the other which moves forwards. this would be the dark energy to the normal energy. i think that is why, in our present state as carbon-based organisms, it would be impossible or extremely improbable that we could ever travel through time (other than the normal relativity-type time travel).

Lol.. No it isn't. having a glimpse of the future would entail that some group of particles associated with memory moves backwards in time. where in physics do you see this happening? that's what i thought, no where. what you are doing is all based on relating present information to information you have gathered in the past to make an analytical assumption of what is about to happen. in fact you are doing that at every conscious moment. the fact that you can accurately predict what is about to happen is not proof that you are seeing the future, but really a testament to your mind's ability to calculate the effects of actions that you preform on a normal basis.

The singularity causes physics to break down. since physics is dependant upon many variables and constants, i would assume that everything we know about physics would be different in a black hole. but, that said, we know it is possible for particles to escape due to quantum tunneling, though rare. the reason you can't find anything about quantum gravity is because the theory doesn't exist. physicists are working on it as we speak and one of the leading theories is M-theory, or commonly known as string theory, which ties together both quantum electrodynamics and general relativity into a theory of everything. the wildly different characteristics of a black hole would probably call for some strange 'string' characteristics, but every form of energy would have a different type of 'string', as you probably know. it might be that black holes are like a tear in the brane, and leak energy out. but that would be a theory based on a theory, and neither of them are provable at this point. as for how many dimensions the event horizon would cross, well i would have to assume at least 4. if string theory were correct, then all those dimensions as well. but there might be more dimensions interacting than even in normal space, who knows. at the center of a black hole, space-time warps inward on itself into an infinitely curving spiral. time has meaning, but it is so warped that you wouldn't know it still did. i don't know about a black hole inside another black hole. there could be a collision between two black holes that could possibly destroy both, or make them smaller. the only thing i can think of thats like two black holes is a rotating black hole. it has two event horizons.

give humans a few hundred years and it will be almost impossible to wipe them out. we will have colonized the moon and mars, and would be working on sending manned missions to other planets. give humans a few thousand years and we will have reached planets in other systems.

all i have to say is... http://www.wikipedia.org

there's a little bit more to it than that, though. every celestial body has a schwarzschild radius, hypothetically. it is the size (proportional to its mass) at which that body becomes a black hole. for instance, the sun has a schwarzschild radius of about 3 km.