by Bill DeSmedt | Dec 31, 2021 | Tunguska
The Aleph — By Dr. John C. (“Jack”) Adler, as told to Bill DeSmedt Last time, we looked at the anatomy of a black hole, what little there is of it (just mass, spin, and charge, remember?). More particularly, we looked at its core singularity, and at how an event...
by Bill DeSmedt | Dec 10, 2021 | Tunguska
Beyond the Black Horizon By Dr. John C. (“Jack”) Adler, as told to Bill DeSmedt When we left off last time, we’d just got done scrunching several suns’ worth of mass down into a black hole. Now it’s time to take a look inside, at what’s called a “singularity.” Calling...
by Bill DeSmedt | Dec 1, 2021 | Tunguska
A Black Hole Primer By Dr. John C. (“Jack”) Adler, as told to Bill DeSmedt Last time, you’ll recall, we were saying that maybe the key to the Tunguska riddle lies in the nature of primordial black holes, like the one the Jackson-Ryan hypothesis claims...
by Bill DeSmedt | Nov 11, 2021 | Tunguska
Jackson & Ryan Bite the Dust! When we left off last time, the Jackson-Ryan hypothesis that the Tunguska impactor was a subatomic-sized primordial black hole was being buffeted from all sides. Now, it’s important to remember that the international physics community...
by Bill DeSmedt | Nov 4, 2021 | Tunguska
Trouble Wasn’t Long in Coming! Last time, you’ll recall, we were taking a look at a theory thought up by a couple of good old boys named Al Jackson and Mike Ryan — a theory as to how the 1908 Tunguska Event might have been caused by the earth colliding with a tiny...
by Bill DeSmedt | Oct 20, 2021 | Tunguska
… Name of Jackson and Ryan As I was saying, Al Jackson never forgot Willy Ley’s Tunguska tales, and thirteen years later he shared them with a fellow U Texas grad student, Mike Ryan. So it was only natural that, when Al came across Stephen Hawking’s first paper...
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