Is that a gut (or even GUT) feeling or can you show some mathematics or observational evidence to back up your opinion?
Stephen Hawking - Turns Out That You Can Escape A Black Hole
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Black Holes are always eating.
Always eating and never pooping.
Given infinite time, every black hole should occupy infinite space.
Decay (pooping) would have to be just nearly equal to consumption, to create an equilibrium where expansion is not fast enough to be a problem.
Always eating and never pooping.
Given infinite time, every black hole should occupy infinite space.
Decay (pooping) would have to be just nearly equal to consumption, to create an equilibrium where expansion is not fast enough to be a problem.
Thankfully, I don't have the onerous of trying to tell the smartest man on Earth that he's wrong about a subject he's studied his entire life.
I tend to favor from my laymen's study, though, the theories of Laura Mersini-Houghton. I.e. that Hawking Radiation just doesn't quite add up.
Mind you, her models require the Multiverse to be true but Stephen himself has theories that require them to exist so we're both trudging on woo science here.
Black holes are an extrapolation into a physical arena where our current theories are lacking (quantum gravity), so I'm prepared to accept that those theories might be wrong, especially in the lack of a resolution to the firewall problem. Objects with the mass of black holes certainly exist, but what happens inside the event horizon might be very different to what the theories posit. LIGO observations might eventually provide clues as to the true nature of such objects.
https://briankoberlein.com/2014/09/25/yes-virginia-black-holes/
Science on Earth is limited by the fact we're on an insignificant blue dot as Carl Sagan would say so we're limited to the equivalent of hearing stories from a few countries over. Black holes are one of the purest example of such but yes, I'm familiar with that article as well. Also, the claims of people to have proven Hawking radiation via functional black hole models.
Fascinating stuff but I do think it's good to challenge conventional thinking, even in Mr. Hawking's case (especially as he is such a respected figure). After all, Hawking's initial claim to fame involved questioning many of Einstein's accepted theories.
And I'm saying this all as a man not NEARLY smart enough to judge any of this.
Fascinating stuff but I do think it's good to challenge conventional thinking, even in Mr. Hawking's case (especially as he is such a respected figure). After all, Hawking's initial claim to fame involved questioning many of Einstein's accepted theories.
And I'm saying this all as a man not NEARLY smart enough to judge any of this.
It's where I do my best thinkin'
That happened just the other day, when Billy Bob made a fatal mistake.
He coughed, burped, hiccuped sneezed and broke wind all at the same time. Due to lack of air pressure--he collapsed in on himself--imploded so hard he took off the back bumper of the pick-up.
There's still an air pocket on Hi-way 79 where beer cans circle to this day.
