Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist

SpaceAdmiral writes "Nature reports that, according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, 'It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist.' George Chapline argues that the collapse of massive stars is more likely to lead to dark energy stars. These dark energy stars behave somewhat like a black hole outside of the surface, but the negative gravity inside could cause matter to 'bounce back out again.'"

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No such Thing as Black Holes?

[the_Bionic_lemming]

No such Thing as Black Holes?

This guy never saw Goatse...

Re:The actual article

[jweatherley]

but, if this theory has any weight, it could be equally valid.

Here's my theory - I reckon it is equally valid too:

It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to disappear into a black hole -- is ludicrous.

Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is
evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night?

Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that
particular favor!) That's where the "black hole" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "black hole" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "black hole" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "black hole" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950.

That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the
black hole", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "black hole" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our
government when the sun goes down.

(props to spiralx)