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"And the Collapse of Spacetime", by Stephen J. Crothers.
Here is the URL to this 9-page PDF: http://www.wbabin.net/science/crothers6.pdf
The abstract:
In terms of its stated scope, what would you, dear reader, say is its most glaring mistake?
Note that this document does not attempt (in any meaningful way) to address any astronomical (or other) observations, so any mistakes must be in aspects such as internal logic, misreading (or worse) of GR, or failure in the underlying math.
Note too that the most glaring mistake may not be the most devastating ... for example, it may be possible to reasonably easily patch up (or over) a glaring mistake (if it were relatively trivial for example), but not a fundamental one (which may be rather subtle and not at all glaring, for example).
Here is the URL to this 9-page PDF: http://www.wbabin.net/science/crothers6.pdf
The abstract:
It seems to be an attempt to show that General Relativity (GR) contains a fatal internal inconsistency.The notion of black holes voraciously gobbling up matter, twisting spacetime into contortions that trap light, stretching the unwary into long spaghetti-like strands as they fall inward to ultimately collide and merge with an infinitely dense point-mass singularity, has become a mantra of the astrophysical community, so much so that even primary school children know about the sinister black hole. There are almost daily reports of scientists claiming that they have again found black holes here and there. It is asserted that black holes range in size from micro to mini, to intermediate and on up through to supermassive behemoths. Black holes are spoken of as scientific facts and it is routinely claimed that they have been detected at the centres of galaxies. Images of black holes having their wicked ways with surrounding matter are routinely included with reports of them. Some physicists even claim that black holes will be created in particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider, potentially able to swallow the Earth. Despite the assertions of the astronomers and astrophysicists, nobody has ever found a black hole, anywhere, let alone “imaged” one. The pictures adduced to convince are actually either artistic impressions (i.e. drawings) or photos of otherwise unidentified objects imaged by telescopes and merely asserted to be due to black holes, ad hoc.
In terms of its stated scope, what would you, dear reader, say is its most glaring mistake?
Note that this document does not attempt (in any meaningful way) to address any astronomical (or other) observations, so any mistakes must be in aspects such as internal logic, misreading (or worse) of GR, or failure in the underlying math.
Note too that the most glaring mistake may not be the most devastating ... for example, it may be possible to reasonably easily patch up (or over) a glaring mistake (if it were relatively trivial for example), but not a fundamental one (which may be rather subtle and not at all glaring, for example).
