"A black hole is a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing—including particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from inside it". From -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
Correct...
from inside the Black Hole. Outside, their gravitational effects on other objects behave just like those
of other objects.
If you replaced Sun with a Black Hole of equivalent mass (that is, a Black Hole that's exactly 1 Solar Mass), the orbits of all the planets would be
completely unaffected. And its Schwarzschild Radius (that is, the region inside of which there's only one direction: to the center), would only be about 3 km. In other words, a Black Hole equal to the mass of Sun would only be about as big as a small suburban town. A Black Hole with Earth's mass would only have a radius of about 9 millimeters. (BTW, neither could ever become Black Holes naturally.)
I wrote:
Imagine we all live on the same planet Earth, in the same Solar System, in the same Milky Way galaxy and in the same local part of the Universe. These cosmic conditions are equal for all humans and the different terrestrial and celestial motions are similar for all humans and even the celestial scenario are similar for humans living under the same Sky.
These common conditions of course gives rise to the same cultural Stories of Creation and to a large extend also the similar mythical images painted or made on rock surfaces.
Except, they don't.
If what you say is true, I would expect that these stories would have remained the same (that is, EXACTLY the same) throughout history. And yet, there's already massive diversity by the time history started getting recorded.
Are you serious? A god on the Earth?
I can name several Earth Gods from Germanic cultures alone.
Nerthus
Ing
Gerd
Folde
Sif
Sheaf
Shield Sheafson
John Barleycorn
And, of course, Earth Herself. And let's not forget the famous Son of Earth, Thunder Redbeard.
Fig. 1 is a Star Map image of the mostly shown Milky Way contours
(Sky God) on the northern hemisphere, but more countours can really be observed, as on Fig. 2 from Bohuslen in Sweden. The Egyptians have obviously observed the very same celestial imagery which is why we can find cultural similarites by doing Comparative Mythology.
That picture of the Milky Way looks NOTHING like either picture.
Well of course our ancestors watched the Sky - and the oral tradition works very well as long as they are connected to relevant terrestrial and celestial objects, as I´m trying to describe here.
But of course, "these oral mumbo-jumbo stories" don´t tick anything for those who are disconnected from the natural scenarios.
I've told you before: I don't regard them as "mumbo-jumbo". Nor, by the way, has the tradition entirely died. Many of our stories are still being told and retold orally, evolving with the changing needs of the cultures in which they're told. Even when we can't see most of them, we still wish upon the Stars.
And at the same time, new stories are told and retold. New Gods and new monsters are born all the time, some of which actually spread to wider awareness.
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Regarding my paper:
But otherwise you understood the descriptions and the overall idea?
It doesn't matter whether I do or not. On their own, ideas are scientifically worthless.
