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Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes'
ananyo writes "Stephen Hawking has proposed a new solution to the black-hole firewall paradox, which has been vexing physicists for almost two years. The paradox troubles physicists because if the firewall scenario is correct, Einstein's general theory of relativity is flouted. But the classical theory black hole cannot be reconciled to the quantum mechanical prediction that energy and information can escape from a black hole. Now Hawking has proposed a tantalizingly simple solution to the paradox which allows both quantum mechanics and general relativity to remain intact — black holes simply do not have an event horizon to catch fire. The key to his claim is that quantum effects around the black hole cause spacetime to fluctuate too wildly for a sharp boundary surface to exist. As Hawking writes in his paper, 'The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes — in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.'"
Relativity is far from even remotely correct.
It spits out infinities all over the place.
Infinities don't exist in reality. They exist solely as concepts.
Any scientist worth their weight in salt will tell you that.
For crying out loud, relativity misses out more than 70% of the universe that it tries to predict!
Its uses right now don't even work right! They have to constantly resync GPS even WHILE USING it. It cannot predict anything beyond certain energies, masses or time scales.
I'd hardly care if it died. All it does is hold people back.
It has as much use as Newtonian gravity does, AKA it is limited in SCOPE.
Relativity should never be used to attempt to explain blackholes due to the fact that it lies outside the scope it can predict with any sense of accuracy.
Yes they are.
Science = the universe is 14 billion years old, here is why.
Religion (Christianity, for example): the universe is 6000 years old, no proof at all.