Rethinking the origins of the universe
September 26, 2014 - Black holes have long captured the public imagination and been the subject of popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood. They are the ultimate unknown – the blackest and most dense objects in the universe that do not even let light escape.
And as if they weren’t bizarre enough to begin with, now add this to the mix: they don’t exist.
“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.”
For decades, black holes were thought to form when a massive star collapses under its own gravity to a single point in space – imagine the Earth being squished into a ball the size of a peanut – called a singularity. So the story went, an invisible membrane known as the event horizon surrounds the singularity and crossing this horizon means that you could never cross back. It’s the point where a black hole’s gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape it. The reason black holes are so bizarre is that it pits two fundamental theories of the universe against each other. Einstein’s theory of gravity predicts the formation of black holes but a fundamental law of quantum theory states that no information from the universe can ever disappear. Efforts to combine these two theories lead to mathematical nonsense, and became known as the information loss paradox.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking used quantum mechanics to show that black holes emit radiation. Since then, scientists have detected fingerprints in the cosmos that are consistent with this radiation, identifying an ever-increasing list of the universe’s black holes.
But now Mersini-Houghton describes an entirely new scenario.
Sources and more information:
• Physicist Claims to Have Proven Mathematically That Black Holes Do Not Exist
There has been a great deal of study and debate surrounding the mysteries of black holes. The University of North Carolina's Laura Mersini-Houghton believes that the reason there is so much uncertainty is because black holes don't exist. Her paper has been submitted toArXiv, but has not been subjected to peer review.
• Black holes DON'T exist and Big Bang Theory is wrong, Laura Mersini-Houghton claims
She claims that as a star dies, it releases a type of radiation known as Hawking radiation - predicted by Professor Stephen Hawking. THE BLACK HOLE INFORMATION PARADOX One of the biggest unanswered questions about black holes is the so-called information paradox. Under current theories for black holes it is thought that nothing can escape from the...
• Black Holes Don't Exist
• Despite What You May Have Heard, Black Holes Haven't Exactly Been Disproven - Rumors of black holes' deaths have been greatly exaggerated.
• Researcher's Math Deems Black Holes Impossible
• "Black Holes Can Never Come into Being" --New Theory Forces Scientists to Rethink Whether Big Bang Ever Happened
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