Thursday, November 19, 2009

Are Black Holes Forbidden Mathematically? [Starts With A Bang]

In the comments on one of my posts, someone pointed me towards Stephen Crothers, who gives the following argument (in a nutshell) as to why black holes cannot possibly exist:

  1. General Relativity is our theory of gravity, which relates the curvature of space to the gravitational acceleration of objects.
  2. This theory only works in certain regimes; it breaks down at the point of singularities.
  3. A black hole, as predicted by Schwarzschild, is a singularity.
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