Black holes 'do not exist'

Nature ^ | 03/31/05 | Philip Ball

[traviskicks]

And isn't it nice to know that scientists are willing to admit that they don't know it all?
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Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often. - Donald Rumsfeld

[grey_whiskers]

Every time I try to grasp quantum physics, event horizons, black holes and super-dense dark matter, my head starts to explode and I have to go find something I can deal with like digging a posthole>/b> or sorting my socks.

Post-Hole Digger = "PhD".

So what don't you understand? :-)

Cheers!

[Dick Vomer]

yeah im not buying this. I need to see some equations and evidence before I believe any of this. I have a background in physics and I get the impression that he doesnt understand some aspects........noticed that some physicists when they cant explain something like to say its because of dark matter/energy

Damn it... your forcing me to do this but...... ok

[Dick Vomer]

OK... had enough???

[TailspinJim]

I'm halfway through "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku, published in January 2005, and he writes of black holes in great detail. (wormholes and strings, too).

[Dick Vomer]

[Dick Vomer]

and just in case you want to see the rough draft of the black hole "not there" theory...

/sarcasm off roflmao

[RightWhale]

Use the duct tape if the head seems likely to explode. But wait! There was an explosion at a duct tape factory today. Don't know if they were product testing.

[getsoutalive]

Check your calendars.

[Right Wing Assault]

Oh, Yeah? Well, take this!
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

[Smokin' Joe]

Outstanding theory. Nobel material, for certain!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This will explain everything.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Black holes, such as the one pictured in this artist's impression, may in fact be pockets of 'dark energy'.
© ESA/NASA

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

No noise caused by an explosion in space?

What about within the matter itself?

Do you think that a blast wave in a vacuum couldn't vibrate an eardrum? Or to put it differently, do you think that a blast wave in a vacuum couldn't blow up anything?

Question: Did the "Big Bang" produce any noise?
Answer: Only in the parts that mattered.

- You heard it hear first -
DG & CP

[Publius6961]

Thanks, guys.

It's all perfectly clear now.

not!

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "Obviously, someone hasn't looked inside Barney Frank's head."

I always though Barney's was much lower...

[JasonC]

They were written by this other guy - named Shakespeare.

[Dr. Frank fan]

I can't tell at what level of seriousness you meant your post. Suffice to say:

noise requires a medium

no medium in space

Now, if you're "in" the explosion, or the actual blast radius of the explosion reaches your position while it still has a sufficient energy, then yes perhaps sympathetic vibrations could cause your whole body, and eardrums, to oscillate, and you'll "hear" something.

I think Luke was too far away from those TIE Fighters for that to apply in his case, however.

Best,

[timestax]

pingy

[MarkL]

What's next? No Klingons?

Only around Uranus.

Mark