Guest author, Thomas Kennedy, features a twice-monthly series, Quantum Leap, wherein he guides readers through the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. This is issue 007.

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Despite the regular pronouncements in the popular press, there is a growing debate among physicists that, in fact, the mathematical models that at one time purported to clearly substantiate the existence of such, black holes are proving out to be false.

Black holes have provided “simple”  answers to, for example, the questions of angular momentum for galaxy formation.  Why is it that galaxies don’t fly apart, given the energy and resulting motions that are readily evident?  Well, the theory goes, if you have a sufficiently strong gravitational force at the center of a galaxy, that provides the stickiness needed to keep galactic material from devolving into chaos.

At least that is a great explanation to the general public.

What is happening now, is that the great cry of “Eureka, we have found the Holy Grail of balancing variables in our cosmology models,” is beginning to fade out.

In and of itself, the hypothesis of black holes has always violated notions of both general and special relativity regarding matter and energy as it applies to the concept of a singularity and an event horizon.  This conflict had been sort of waved away by physicists who proclaimed that “we don’t yet understand what happens inside of the event horizon.”  Well, yeah, especially if the event horizon is a figment of ones imagination.

In addition to the violation of both forms of relativity, black holes also violate the theorems of quantum mechanics through the loss of information from our universe to some other location that we don’t know of.  In the world of qm, information doesn’t leak out, but is contained in our universe.

While I am by no means the first person to conclude that black holes don’t exist; don’t forget that when the hypothesis is ultimately dumped into a waste bin by the popular press, that you were already ahead of the game.

Watch for Issue #8 of Thomas’ “Quantum Leap”, here on A Sky Full of Stars, on February 19, 2010.

You can access all previous issues of “Quantum Leap”, here.

Tags: black holes, event horizon, Quantum Mechanics

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