Questions About Astronomy

1. This isn’t exactly a question, but I want to learn more about black holes – what they are, how astronomers actually know this information, where everything goes and why they don’t suck in more than they actually do, and how time travel (to the future due to the slowing down of time) could ostensibly happen.

2. Assuming the Big Bang theory of the world/galaxy/universe/etc. is accurate… where did all of that come from? Or, where did the materials that “banged” originate? At what point did they have to have “appear” out of nowhere – and how is this possible? And if nothing existed to be created or altered – or there was no empty space to be filled… how could “nothing” even exist?

3. What is the largest substantiation for life forms on other planets similar to ours, and, if you assume that probability says that there is a likelihood of other planets similar to ours, how far away would these planets have to be? How is it possible for them to directly replicate us? Isn’t it possible that other life forms already do exist on other planets, but we just aren’t able to detect them or they aren’t able to detect us due to variances in our perception?

4. How might determining what precisely the fourth dimension is affect space and what we know of it? If indeed the fourth dimension has to do with time, doesn’t it play directly into black holes? Is it possible that by discovering what the fourth dimension is we would understand black holes, or vice versa? …Do dimensions exist beyond the fourth? (Why do we even believe in a fourth dimension? – Is it because there are still things we can’t explain using what we know?)

5. How do astronomers really know how far away everything is and the truth of all that they claim exists?