Just thought I’d post this here for anyone interested in astrophysics who might not have heard about it yet. Apparently, if Mr. Hawking is correct, black holes as we currently know them may not exist. Instead, what we have identified as black holes may actually have no event horizon, no singularity, and may be possible to escape from. This would resolve the firewall problem, which arose when it was discovered that the theory of black holes would have required the event horizon of a black hole to be a highly energetic region that would incinerate incoming matter, violating the general theory of relativity. Interestingly as well an Indian physicist claims he came to these conclusions years ago.
Stephen Hawking - biggest troll in the science community.
so what are black holes then? quantum space optical illusions?
Oooh, this is interesting. I’ll be watching this to see what comes of it.
space isnt real
ooohhh a big swirly sparkly lump a shit im so scared please dont suck up my galaxy booh hoo
More importantly, if black holes don’t exist, how do galaxies spin?
more importantly if i have no nose how do i smell
More importantly isn’t this new statement to fix the old statement that was just hypothesis just a hypothesis meaning that at the end of the day we still know goat turds about the universe as a whole
If I’m understanding everything correctly they’d be ECOs, Eternally Collapsing Objects. Instead of being completely collapsed into a singularity, they’d instead be in a state of constant collapse, always on the verge of compressing into a singularity but being held up by outward radiation pressure. This would solve the information loss paradox and the firewall problem.
More or less. If we could actually get out there and study these kinds of phenomena I’m sure we’d learn a whole lot more than just sitting here on Earth debating the math, but unfortunately that’s all we can do to advance our knowledge of astrophysics.
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?
“How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?”
Jaden Smith has won the Noble Prize for Theoretical Physics.
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I think he’s stating they they’d still have gravity and all that, they just work differently than we thought.
Well yeah, it still needs to be a supermassive gravity well.
They are still so powerful they completely absorb light, right?
@ CPU, I would suggest that be changed to “a bunch of assholes trying to explain shit”. There is no possible way in this lifetime to prove anything regarding black holes, and a myriad of other things, science attempts to formulate an explanation as to why things do what they do, which isn’t all that different from religion when you think about it.
The funny thing is how angry both parties will get when you tell them they are actually quite alike. lol
Yes and no…in the revised theory they would still trap light and matter with their immense gravity, but instead of it being forever sealed away, it’s possible for the absorbed matter and light to escape (at the death of the black hole I believe was the idea), albeit very mangled and unrecognizable.
put that way, you can make any two things seem alike
apples and oranges are both fruit, so they are alike… well okay, touché?
(i’m not angry and i’m not trying to put religion down - but you seem to be putting science down with some flawed arguments :p:p)
Guys, we’re talking about black holes, not religion.
I mean, yeah, arguing over religion can be a bit of a black hole, but it’s still off-topic.
Thanks for the mini-mod, Pyro. :hmph:
It does look like we’re on topic.
Haha it’s ok daniel, it just means the mods are rubbing off on us commoners.
On topic: I don’t follow science topics that closely (I’m more of a literature and music geek) but this is a very interesting thing to read up on.