Black Holes Have Hair

As long as unshaven.

Obviously obtained from one of the many fine shampoo products sold on CR4 General Section.

Roger shared an article about this too: http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/26842/Soft-Hair-on-Black-Holes

Thanks! His link provides more in depth data than the one I referenced.

And links from that link leads one deeper and deeper into a domain dominated by

creatures that carry their brains around in wheelbarrows as they try to explain to

mere mortals the infinite wonders around them in their quantum world.

It is all very interesting to me,but I am soon lost in the dichotomy of the super small

and the super large,and quickly realize that I am in very deep water

and out of my depth.

I was out of my depth before I ever read about any of it

I am a 'simple' engineer and although I know little of quantum theory I can read articles of interest and I relate what I learn to what I know - which is not a lot!. But going OT slightly - Learn and know - are much the same thing to me - except I am let down by a poor memory - therefore I learn something temporarily and a while later - forget it - and therefore don't know it.

Sorry for the waffle, but I have always thought that things that disappear into a Black Hole in fact 'pop out' the other side (wherever that is, or whenever) - but all the maths and physics I learned (and forgot) means I can't explain it in a coherent way to others.

But what is 'matter'. Einstein said it is a combination of mass and energy linked by the speed of light - which to me is the 'information' given to matter in our universe. But what if matter is some ethereal substance of meaningless mass or energy that only behaves as we know it when it has the 'information' assigned to it on entering our universe - and equally becomes an ethereal substance again when stripped of information that it hangs on a peg at edge of the BH when it leaves. The substance is then assigned new information and behaves accordingly when it exits the BH on the other side. Perhaps by the back door into this universe as 'dark' matter waiting to be 'told' what it is.

This ethereal substance could 'exist' in our universe in sense doing nothing until told what to do - like the substance that creates a 'picture' in our brain when displayed on a computer screen. The same substance being saved to memory - akin to a DVD - metaphorically to the black hole in the centre where it leaves the 'information' on the surface of the DVD at the edge of the hole (so to speak) - no actual picture is stored - no amount of dismantling the matter of the DVD will find a picture.

The DVD just holds 'information' that creates a picture in our brain when assigned to this ethereal substance. The mechanism that assigns this information to the substance is itself made up of a substance that has already been 'told' what to do.

It's all very abstract and speculative of course - but interesting.

Here's a Scientific American article to explain it to the "layman". It's still Greek to me, even with the simple explanation.

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2016/01/black-holes-have-soft-hair-%E2%80%93-and-stephen-hawking-has-radical-new-theory?et_cid=5051842&et_rid=36

How much conversion of matter to energy would be required to produce enough

energy to account for the expansion of the universe?

Perhaps the total of all of the matter consumed by black holes would be sufficient,and

as more and more matter goes down the hole,more and more energy is produced.

While transitioning the black hole,the energy loses all of it's normal

characteristics,and seems to be "dark energy".

Likewise,the dark matter is the "skeleton" of normal matter;the transformed remains

of normal matter,that can not be destroyed by the black hole.

Sure,this is a hair-brained theory,but I haven't had a mental hair cut in a long time.