Ghost Star?

[Colt]

I finished reading the fourth Man-Kzin Wars book yesterday. In one of the stories, The Man who would be Kzin, it discusses something called a "Ghost Star". It described it as being a star in a counter-universe to ours and so its gravitational affects can be felt in ours. Any comments or information on this? Or is it completely fictional? -Colt

[GrapesOfWrath]

I'm guessing fictional. /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Or do you mean, are there serious theories that treat that sort of thing?

[ToSeek]

I believe there's a current theory that claims gravity is weak because most of it leaks off into other dimensions. That's the closest I've heard that I can recall, but it's kind of the reverse of what you're saying.

[traztx]

On 2003-01-20 14:51, Colt wrote:
It described it as being a star in a counter-universe to ours and so its gravitational affects can be felt in ours. Any comments or information on this? Or is it completely fictional? -Colt


Some consider a black hole to be in a different universe because there is no way for anything within the event horizon to escape. Some also propose that black holes were once massive stars.

[Colt]

Sorry, I forgot about the thread. /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

I think that in the story it was a super-massive star in a counter-universe that has a large enough gravity well to be felt in out universe. Maybe large enough to bend the fabric to be detectable. Something along those lines. -Colt

[Argos]

I´ve read something about "white holes", the BH´s counterpart: all that fell in a black hole would emerge at another universe, or at another region of the universe, as an energy burst [a white hole], after passing through the singularity. The author, a certain Richard Taylor (English), tries to explain the gamma-ray bursts in our universe in these terms. But I never heard of a mainstream scientist considering it as a serious thing.

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