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Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist
Koreantoast writes: Black holes, the stellar phenomena that continue to capture the imagination of scientists and science fiction authors, may not actually exist. According to a paper published by physics professor Laura Mersini-Houghton at the University of North Carolina and Mathematics Professor Harald Pfeiffer of the University of Toronto, as a collapsing star emits Hawking radiation, it also sheds mass at a rate that suggests it no longer has the density necessary to become a black hole — the singularity and event horizon never form. While the arXiv paper with the exact solution has not yet been peer reviewed, the preceding paper by Mersini-Houghton with the approximate solutions was published in Physics Letters B.
"I'm still not over the shock," said Mersini-Houghton. "We've been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about... Physicists have been trying to merge these two theories – Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum mechanics – for decades, but this scenario brings these two theories together, into harmony."
"I'm still not over the shock," said Mersini-Houghton. "We've been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about... Physicists have been trying to merge these two theories – Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum mechanics – for decades, but this scenario brings these two theories together, into harmony."
Respectable mad scientists have known for years that supposed 'black holes' are really just wormholes to the goatee universe.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of CGI Artists for science documentaries suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
that girls are bad at math.
P.S. this is a JOKE. even if the conclusions are proven incorrect upon peer review, im sure that that prof. mersini-houghton is many orders of magnitude smarter than me, and most male homosapiens for that matter.
Something about man proving that black is white and getting himself killed at the next zebra crossing?
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I'm not Mexican but I believe it's spelled "frijole"
IAAASBH (I am an astrophysicist studying black holes): Yeah, um, no.
So... The science is settled then? OK...
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