Black holes do not lose mass (nor are they a lost mass).
P.S. It is great to see people get engaged in science. But a word of caution: the ideas tractable by novice cosmologists have been long exhausted.
I'm going to say that every or nearly every rookie idea has been tried, but it's very doubtful that all of them have been "disproven." That implies that we already know the solution which, of course, we don't.
Black holes do not lose mass (nor are they a lost mass).
Don't black holes lose mass through Hawking Radiation?
P.S. It is great to see people get engaged in science. But a word of caution: the ideas tractable by novice cosmologists have been long exhausted.
I am going to have to disgree with this.
I could accept that the majority of ideas that novices can think of have been either proven or disproven already but not all of them. Every now and then some rookie does have a new idea. Sure, it's likely to be wrong but sometimes, just sometimes those new ideas might prove to be a real discovery.
And even if it isn't, so what? The rookie might still learn something new to him/her.
P.S. It is great to see people get engaged in science. But a word of caution: the ideas tractable by novice cosmologists have been long exhausted.
I am going to have to disgree with this.
I could accept that the majority of ideas that novices can think of have been either proven or disproven already but not all of them. Every now and then some rookie does have a new idea. Sure, it's likely to be wrong but sometimes, just sometimes those new ideas might prove to be a real discovery.
And even if it isn't, so what? The rookie might still learn something new to him/her.
I will repeat that I find it great that more people are engaged in science.
But I will have to ask for understanding on behalf of the astrophysical community in that we don't have the time to weed out the thousands of rookie ideas that come to us to find the one in maybe 20 years idea that is novel and can work. The streamlined process of modern science might find the same thing in a much slower manner, but it will also find many other things in a much faster way.
P.S. It is great to see people get engaged in science. But a word of caution: the ideas tractable by novice cosmologists have been long exhausted.
I am going to have to disgree with this.
I could accept that the majority of ideas that novices can think of have been either proven or disproven already but not all of them. Every now and then some rookie does have a new idea. Sure, it's likely to be wrong but sometimes, just sometimes those new ideas might prove to be a real discovery.
And even if it isn't, so what? The rookie might still learn something new to him/her.
I will repeat that I find it great that more people are engaged in science.
But I will have to ask for understanding on behalf of the astrophysical community in that we don't have the time to weed out the thousands of rookie ideas that come to us to find the one in maybe 20 years idea that is novel and can work. The streamlined process of modern science might find the same thing in a much slower manner, but it will also find many other things in a much faster way.
I'm going to say that every or nearly every rookie idea has been tried, but it's very doubtful that all of them have been "disproven." That implies that we already know the solution which, of course, we don't.
Not really. You don't need to know what the solution is to know that something isn't a solution.
Considering the very nature of science is to try to discover and prove or disprove hypotheses, it seems ass-backwards to discourage amateurs and beginners from trying to discover and prove or disprove hypotheses.
"We?"*sigh* I'm breaking one of my own rules here by attributing to a community what is merely my own opinion...
If you do not wish to waste your time on checking the validity of ideas from newbs then that is totally ok and it is your choice. If someone else is willing to humour a rookie then kudos to them. I'm not saying that scientists must spend all their days explaining why the theory that moon is made of cheese is wrong (In fact ideas like that can be checked by the rookie himself/herself from information freely available to everyone.) but there really have been scientific discoveries made by rookies (or even teenagers) and disregarding everyone who isn't an established scientist will also harm the advancement of knowledge.
The second one is inaccurate in saying "Sweet, maybe I can publish this." and just going 'back to start' instead of expanding on that can of worms.(click to show/hide)