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Author Topic:   Black Holes Don't Exist
nwr
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Message 5 of 174 (737685)
09-28-2014 12:56 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
09-25-2014 8:28 AM


Black holes don't exist, or at least so says physics professor Laura Mersini-Houghton in a paper submitted to the non-peer reviewed online journal ArXiv: Back-reaction of the Hawking radiation flux on a gravitationally collapsing star II: Fireworks instead of firewalls
I found this interesting.
I have seen several reactions to it, but none of them are definitive. Everyone seems to think that this will need more time and investigation.
No particular surprise here. I have tended to think of black holes as theoretical entities awaiting better empirical evidence.
As for the Milky Way -- there's lots of gravity, but that's not enough to be sure that there's a black hole.
I seem to be the only active moderator this weekend.
I was noticing that this seemed to be taking a long time for promotion. If I were still an admin, I would have promoted it in an instant. I haven't seen any moose activity lately. Phat has been around, but probably sees this as outside his sphere.

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Message 11 of 174 (739636)
10-26-2014 12:42 AM
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10-25-2014 6:56 PM


Re: Black Holed theory
But we definitely know who is wrong?
I think your sarcasm detector is broken.

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