Universe may be contained with an Atari Video Game
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday January 7, 2004 @06:51PM
from the drawn-and-quartered dept.
Matthew writes: A new hypothesis suggests that black holes are not actually infinitely dense pinpoints in space—rather, they are a complex system most closely represented by the 1982 Atari video game “Gravitar“.
In the video game, ships, stars, and other space stuff is drawn into a sphere in the center of the console, whereas in black holes, ships, stars, and other space stuff is drawn into the sphere in the center of the black hole.
“The parallels between the new theory and the old video game are quite remarkable”, says Emil Mottola of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. “In fact, I had my inspiration for the theory while reminiscing the game with MAME.”
Critics of the theory note that Gravitars do not contain as much entropy as traditional black holes, nor to traditional black holes require a constant diet of quarters in order to operate.