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Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar
Mark Eymer observes: "From the Space.com article: 'Emil Mottola of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina suggest that instead of a star collapsing into a pinpoint of space with virtually infinite gravity, its matter is transformed into a spherical void surrounded by "an extremely durable form of matter never before experienced on Earth."' While these objects may abound in the universe, they also say that our entire universe may reside within a giant gravastar." This new theory attempts to fill holes in the currently accepted concept of the "black hole".
I agree. According to this, this guy is a college drop-out.
There needs to be a new rule in society: If you can't graduate from college these days, you're not allowed to suggest scientific theories.
I'm not good at guessing games... is it you?
Credible leaders have been wrong, but it's always anothe credible scientist that shows them to be wrong. The days of the brilliant outsider are more or less over in science, there's just too much that's already been done for someone to have insight into problems without extensive knowledge provided through the current system.