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The Black Hole Catastrophe and the Collapse of Spacetime
September 30, 2008
This paper is to be presented at the Conference On Precession & Ancient
Knowledge, October 3-5, 2008, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Preamble:
The notion of black holes voraciously gobbling up matter, twisting spacetime
into contortions that trap light, stretching the unwary into long
spaghetti-like strands as they fall inward to ultimately collide and merge
with an infinitely dense point-mass singularity, has become a mantra of the
astrophysical community, so much so that even primaryschool children know
about the sinister black hole. There are almost daily reports of scientists
claiming that they have again found black holes here and there. It is asserted
that black holes range in size from micro to mini, to intermediate and on up
through to supermassive behemoths. Black holes are spoken of as scientific facts
and it is routinely claimed that they have been detected at the centres of
galaxies. Images of black holes having their wicked ways with surrounding
matter are routinely included with reports of them. Some physicists even
claim that black holes will be created in particle accelerators, such as
the Large Hadron Collider, potentially able to swallow the Earth. Despite
the assertions of the astronomers and astrophysicists, nobody has ever
found a black hole, anywhere, let alone "imaged" one. The pictures
adduced to convince are actually either artistic impressions (i.e. drawings)
or photos of otherwise unidentified objects imaged by telescopes and merely
asserted to be due to black holes, ad hoc.
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A complete copy of this paper in pdf format can be downloaded
here.
More papers by Stephen J. Crothers can be found
here.
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Stephen J. Crothers is a mathematician with a keen interest in
debunking the many myths of modern cosmology.
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