Watch Numberphile discuss a “Googol”: http://bit.ly/zUfoWo
LINKS:
All music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow
Einstein Ring (a special type of gravitational lensing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring
Earth orbiting black hole (gif): http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/lensearth_640x480.gif
Visual distortion caused by massive gravity: http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/nslens_effects.html
What would it be like to travel into a black hole? (text): http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles/fall_in.html
INTO A BLACK HOLE (with videos): http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html
Black Hole view from behind: http://www.spacetimetravel.org/expeditionsl/expeditionsl.html
Spaghettification: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/encyc_mod3_q16.html
Dumbhole: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/a-sonic-black-hole
more on the dumbhole: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23625/
what it would look like to approach the speed of light: http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/4dperspective.html
pinhole camera demo of “seeing behind yourself”: http://www.spacetimetravel.org/aur/node2.html
More on visual changes while approaching lightspeed: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/aberration.html
Where is the center of the universe? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html
Expansion layer demo: http://www.exploratorium.edu/hubble/tools/center.html