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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2594388" data-attributes="member: 3649">That used to be a perfectly good assumption at the time the film was made, especially for a 'rotating' black hole. It was almost cutting edge science at the time because we hadn't yet seen evidence of one yet, so everything was up in the air. One of the assumptions was that for every black hole you had a white hole that was ejecting matter. We didn't yet have theories about it ripping every little particle down to the component quarks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> There were several stories and novels at the time that used black holes as a travel mechanism (Tiptree's HeeChee books did, if I remember right).There was also a TV film&nbsp; about a family on a starship; at the end they also travel through a black hole and emerge from a white hole in a new universe. Don't remember the name of it, but it did have the cool effect of them firing the ships lasers and them seeing the laser light drawn into the hole <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 2594388, member: 3649"] That used to be a perfectly good assumption at the time the film was made, especially for a 'rotating' black hole. It was almost cutting edge science at the time because we hadn't yet seen evidence of one yet, so everything was up in the air. One of the assumptions was that for every black hole you had a white hole that was ejecting matter. We didn't yet have theories about it ripping every little particle down to the component quarks :) There were several stories and novels at the time that used black holes as a travel mechanism (Tiptree's HeeChee books did, if I remember right). There was also a TV film about a family on a starship; at the end they also travel through a black hole and emerge from a white hole in a new universe. Don't remember the name of it, but it did have the cool effect of them firing the ships lasers and them seeing the laser light drawn into the hole :) [/QUOTE]

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