RE: Proper response
November 17, 2013 at 3:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2013 at 3:22 am by matasteme.)
My definition, and I'm kind of paraphrasing a bit as it was a little over a week ago, was 'Faith is the choice to believe in something without evidence to support it." As for black holes shining, the Hawking radiation was what I was getting at, as the vast majority of other emissions given off by black holes comes in the form of the polar jets, and most people wouldn't consider that to be a shine in the same sense as our own sun or a light bulb. As for my intent in the statement originally, I generally have a fascination with theoretical physics and so I spend a fair portion of spare time watching documentaries and such, it wasn't deliberately provocative.
Good suggestion with the asking for clarification, but I suspect the answer to be somewhere along the lines of 'God is mysterious' which doesn't really go anywhere informative. As for my daughter, she is only 10 (today, in fact) and therefore this particular event will most likely not play a large role in the future. If she becomes religious someday, that fact by itself wont bother me. It all depends on the reasons why she makes that choice, and at least she will not have been brainwashed, so that's already a good start.
*edit* The radiation a black hole emits, apart from the polar jets, has to do with quantum particles and anti particles spontaneously being created and annihilated just outside of the event horizon, a common occurrence in empty space. Everything inside the event horizon cannot escape, but when this happens close enough, occasionally only 1 of the created particles will cross over the threshold, allowing the other to escape as some form of radiation.
Good suggestion with the asking for clarification, but I suspect the answer to be somewhere along the lines of 'God is mysterious' which doesn't really go anywhere informative. As for my daughter, she is only 10 (today, in fact) and therefore this particular event will most likely not play a large role in the future. If she becomes religious someday, that fact by itself wont bother me. It all depends on the reasons why she makes that choice, and at least she will not have been brainwashed, so that's already a good start.
*edit* The radiation a black hole emits, apart from the polar jets, has to do with quantum particles and anti particles spontaneously being created and annihilated just outside of the event horizon, a common occurrence in empty space. Everything inside the event horizon cannot escape, but when this happens close enough, occasionally only 1 of the created particles will cross over the threshold, allowing the other to escape as some form of radiation.
