(March 4, 2014 at 8:04 am)LostLocke Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 12:35 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Black holes are imaginary, just like angels, demons, ghosts, gods, and spirits. If Hawking hadn't imagined black holes would you even be talking about them?OK.. wow.
First, it wasn't Hawking who "invented" black holes. The concept was around before he came on the scene.
And second, if we never found planets orbiting other suns we wouldn't be talking about them therefore they would be imaginary?
That's not how this works.
So just because cave men came up with the idea of black holes doesn't mean that they exist. After all, they gave us the idea of gods, devils, demons, spirits, ghosts, angels, and zombies. Have you seen any of them?
It's completely logical that there would be planets orbiting other stars because that's a natural result of star formation. If you had the ability to examine every star system in the visible universe it's doubtful if you would find any that don't have planetoids orbiting them unless they are red supergiants or hypergiants that consumed their solar systems.
