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Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever
sciencehabit writes "New calculations suggest that black holes are not a one-way street. Anything that falls into them may eventually come out. The findings lend important support to quantum gravity, but fly in the face of Einsteinian relativity. They also support Stephen Hawking's reluctant admission that information couldn't be destroyed by black holes. Penn State researcher Ahbay Ashtekar was quoted saying, 'Once we realized that the notion of space-time as a continuum is only an approximation of reality, it became clear to us that singularities are merely artifacts of our insistence that space-time should be described as a continuum.' Let the physics infighting begin."
Continuity (infinite divisibility) is the basis of black holes and wormholes. It is nonsense for the simple reason that it leads to an infinite regress. Heck, space itself (i.e. distance) does not exist for the same simple reason. Distance is an illusion of perception. Spacetime is worse because nothing can move in it by definition. In Conjectures and Refutations, Sir Karl Popper compared spacetime to "Einstein's block universe in which nothing happens". All those physicists out there who are still making a living off of continuum physics are a bunch of crackpots. And that includes time travel believer Stephen Hawking. There is a lot of bullshit in the physics community that passes for science. Don't let mainstream physicists do your thinking for you. Click on the following links and get enlightened.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
Nasty Little Truth About Space
Don't believe me either. Figure it out on your own.