#white holes

[dduane]

Hello! Love your work, life-long fan, etc. etc. But I am here today on a mission and wondering if you could help. My nibling (who is unsure if "niece" and other gendered concepts is right for them) is turning 7 this week and is TERRIFIED of black holes. Can't sleep, can't enjoy the night sky, is-getting-picked-on-at-school bad. I'm hoping to introduce her to Fred, but I think if I start at "so there these things called white holes which kind of are "opposite" black holes," I might have a whole new problem to explain to my sister.

So as I dream up what a "nice" black hole would be all about - How was Fred as a black hole? What would such an entropically-interesting entity like a black hole even look like as a wizard? Have people with melanoheliophobia reached out to you before/Do you have any expert advice?

Thanks for all that you do to help change the landscape for anxious, nerdy people!!

Let me go talk to Fred.

***

"It was a good while ago, you know?" he says.

("He" is an approximation of the most extreme kind, here. Most astronomical entities above the Planetary level have no idea whatsoever what gender is about, or what it's good for. And even at the Planetary level they're often none too sure what it means for biologicals.)

Anyway. When you're in Timeheart, even when only visiting, it's hard to avoid the sense of everything you're discussing being in the nature of a game you won; or a test you passed and don't have to deal with further except as an amused memory. But then, in that most central of states on the far side of physicality, all games are won. All tests are passed. This is where you choose the next challenge. As for past ones...?

"It seems straightforward," Fred says, "when you're a black hole. More and more stuff accretes to you. At first, it's just your job, right? But then it starts to become more, and you slowly start getting aware of it. Mass = consciousness, possibly? I don't know. But you start noticing it. More, and more, and more, till you just can't bear it! Gravity, right? What can you do about gravity? Or mass? Honestly. ...But then, finally!—all of a sudden, the pressure releases. There's room. You have somewhere for it to go."

"The Schwarzchild radius," I say.

"Is that what it's called?" Fred says. "...Was he nice?"

"I, uh... couldn't say. Didn't know him personally."

"Pity," Fred says. "It was such a relief! Please thank him for me." A pause. "...'Him?'"

"Insofar as it matters," I say, "apparently so."

"All right," he says. "But anyway, it's such a simple thing. All your life you've been gathering stuff in. More and more, all the time. And you start saying to yourself, "This can't go on, it's just wrong, what happens if I eat everything? I don't want to eat everything!' You know? It's scary."

"I hear you, cuz," I say.

"But it doesn't matter what you think or feel; it just gets worse and worse. You swell on the inside but you can't swell on the outside, and you can't stop stuff from swirling in and in and in. You think, 'This is all wrong, it's going to be the end of me! And if it is, what else is there? What was this all about? Why am I not big enough?' And 'Why can't I be the same kind of "big enough" on both sides?' And the inside and the outside start fighting over which should be bigger—"

"I think I may know where this is going," I say.

"Yes! And then, all of a sudden, when you think you can't bear it another second longer, something happens and you just... evert!"

"Go inside out, you mean."

He laughs out loud. "Yeah, well, that's maybe a little simplistic...? I mean, when you're dealing with six dimensions and above, you sort of go inside out, and upside down, and sideways, and, you know, more ways than that."

"I'm sorry to say that I don't know," I say, "but I suspect it's memorable."

"Please!" he says. "My poor gnaester! You have no idea."

"Um... perhaps that's for the best."

"But the inside gets bigger than the outside," Fred says. And then adds, a bit abashed but also amused, "I was kind of late to the party on this, apparently. I'm told it's a trope."

"So it is," I said. "...For a lot of us, though. Takes a while to realize what's happened. But you're in good company."

"Oh good. Anyway, so then after that you start emitting all the stuff you earlier absorbed," Fred says. "You're a gateway. It's like... recycling, you know? Takes a while sometimes: some people have trouble emitting, after absorbing and absorbing for so long." He laughs. "Habit, yeah?"

"Yes it is," I say. "Habit is such a problem."

"Anyway," Fred says, "tell everybody it's okay. Black holes are about taking in what's over with, what's done. But when we shift, it's about letting whatever we ingested go out to be something new. Has to go through our insides first, though! That's what we're for."

"Recycling?" I say.

"Recycling. You're starstuff, sure!" And Fred laughs. "But sometimes even starstuff needs to go through the wash."

***

HTH!

#Young Wizards meta #black holes #white holes #Fred

[jareckiworld]

Sam Chivers — White Holes (New Scientist, illustration, 2014)

#Sam Chivers #british art #white holes #cosmology #universe #New Scientist

[fatchance]

"We always make the mistake of thinking of ourselves as different from the world around us, of thinking that we are looking at it from the outside. We forget that we are like other things – that we, too, are like the things we look at.

Carlo Rovelli, in White Holes, 2023.

#quotation #recent reading #Carlo Rovelli #White Holes

[gentlebyte]

We have access only to perspectives. Reality is perhaps nothing other than perspectives. There is no absolute. We are limited, impermanent. And precisely for this reason, to live, to be, as we do, is so light and sweet . . .

#White Holes #Carlo Rovelli #Reality #Perspective #Quote #Humanity

[scottguy]

A 'white hole' ( Theoretically and according to this article.) Is possibly the exit point for all the energy that goes into a black hole but from another universe.

Since there are a lot of black holes, we should have found some white holes from other universes into ours by now. And they think they might have found some evidence of one.

#white holes #astronomy #space science #physics #science

[dougielombax]

So we know about black holes and white holes.

What about grey holes?

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #space #astronomy #black holes #white holes

[loneviatoris]

So you're telling me that black holes and white holes actually LOOK the same from the outside and the stuff that is happening inside and diversifies them comes from a Big Bounce

Wow

#astronomy #quantum physics #white holes #black holes #quantum leap #astrophysics #wow #carlo rovelli

[cosmicmote]

where escape isn't escape

too oft and most often, nearly always even

escape is just into fantasies

but there comes a point where

escape is full awareness of the world and environs

which surrounds us, knowing what it is

and fantasy I think used to serve this more too

maybe with Tolkien, I didn't get into his writings growing up

as the obsessiveness of it all rubbed me in wrong ways and

there were and are better paths, and in any case

lately when I hear singing it sounds like

wastes moving through an oral sphincter however smoothly

a strangling really, and singing can be defined loosely

as anything that results from -isms, expressed vocally

all of them, and it's long been said that the pen is mightier

than the sword but it's all just so much wanking now

and bean flicking, these strange harmonizations so strange

not even managing to be fantastical

really, silence is better

or maybe some big audio dynamite in the globe

an outgrowing of clashes mostly and

there are norms and exceptions in all of this but the latter are quite few

really, silence is better

although I will further add

awareness isn't necessarily a comforting thing

especially when enlightening

for the individual or masses

irritations occur

and it's a cold world, full of energies

love and relations being merely an emulation or

a mirror, of the cosmos

which we can step back and observe

still really, silence is better

words ©spacetree 2024

#spilled thoughts #spilled ink #artists on tumblr #my writing #poetry #spilled poetry #poem #poems on tumblr #spilled words #spilled writing #original writing #original poem #original post #inspired by #white holes #where does love come into play? #it doesn't matter #breathe #let go #heal

[learningcrazy]

What Are White Holes? How They Are Formed?

Have you ever heard of white holes? They might not be as popular as their counterparts, black holes, but they’re equally fascinating and mind-boggling. In this article, we’ll dive into the intriguing world of white holes, exploring what they are, how they differ from black holes, and what role they might play in the universe. Table of Contents Sr#Headings1What Are White Holes?2The Connection…

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#Black Hole Gravity #Black Hole&039;s Neglected Twin #Einstein&039;s Theory #Existence Of A White Hole #General Relativity #General Theory #laws of physics #opposite of black holes #What are white holes? #White Hole In Space #white holes

[datcravat]

pe ru so na

#MY ART #I SPENT FOREVER ON THIS #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #makoto yuki #okay so while it is super iconic I didn't want to draw someone with a gun to their head (love it in P3 love the symbolism #just dont want to explain it all to my mum or have non persona fans see it at my booth at comic con) #so I was forced to get creative #I hope this comes across #but I wanted to imply he just shot that bullet hole into the background that makes thanatos' eye #the bullet hole also sort of looks like a big glint of than's eye #those white parts on the white are than's hand curling around the MC #and I tried to make the colour scheme CYMK to symbolise how the MC is the wildcard #he is the blueprint and can make anything. #a lot of thought and effort went into this one. persona 3 baby!! hope you like it

[timespanner]

#universe #cosmology #Carlos Frenk #multiverse #dark matter #dark energy #white holes #quantum fluctuations #time travel #BBC Ideas #the universe does not necessarily speak your language #you cannot travel backwards in time #(or can you?)

[fatchance]

"Dante, too, encountered the greatest difficulty, in the form of three fierce wild beasts, before he had even crossed the fateful threshold of the Inferno. Like any traveler, he knew that the first step, abandoning the familiar paths, is the most difficult."

Carlo Rovelli, in White Holes, 2023.

#current reading #quotation #Carlo Rovelli #White Holes #theoretical physics

[careiscrazy]

black hole

black holes spaghettify (and yes, that's a real word) anything that comes too close, even light. they make things implode and disappear. matter is basically deleted from the universe, since it is isolated for the rest of space-time.

this reminds me of anxiety. it is a black hole. it takes in everything around me. i bottle it up and never let it escape. my favorite quote is from the song of achilles ("i am made of memories").

i know that we only live one time. i constantly remind myself of that. vivamus, moriendum est.

#space #black holes #white holes #this metaphor sucks #let us live

[kelseyafterdark]

Eddie Diaz cheated on his fuck ass gf with a doppelgänger of his dead ex wife but also we got a rwrb sequel announcement so I guess imma count May 9th as a win for gay people

#911 abc #911 spoilers #eddie diaz #911 season 7 #buddie #ryan guzman #rwrb #red white and royal blue #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex claremont diaz #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #Eddie could realize Shannon 2.0 isn’t gonna fill the hole he needs like Buck realized a gf wouldn’t do and maybe then he’ll realize hes gay

[kaaaaaaarf]

Trans masc Sirius and his dirty stoner boyfriend Remus who keeps giving him UTIs from fingering him after hand rolling his joints.

#RIP Sirius you are God's strongest soldier #why does Remus look so hot in a dirty white tee with holes in it #it's not your fault sirius #(help) #(i can't stop thinking about this) #someone write this I already have too much on my plate #kay tag #wolfstar #marauders

[singledigitsalary]

#amazing body #beautiful body #beautiful women #perfection #gorgeous #tight butt #perfect ass #6 holes is better than 3 #luscious lips #white lingerie